⁷ Then they brought the colt to Jesus and threw their cloaks on it, and he sat on it. ⁸ Many people spread their cloaks on the road, and others spread leafy branches that they had cut in the fields. ⁹ Then those who went ahead and those who followed were shouting,

¹¹ Then he entered Jerusalem and went into the temple, and when he had looked around at everything, as it was already late, he went out to Bethany with the twelve.^(B)

The Anointing at Bethany

³ While he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper,^[a] as he sat at the table, a woman came with an alabaster jar of very costly ointment of nard, and she broke open the jar and poured the ointment on his head.^(A)

⁸ She has done what she could; she has anointed my body beforehand for its burial.^(A)

⁹ Truly I tell you, wherever the good news^[a] is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will be told in remembrance of her.”

²⁵ It was nine o’clock in the morning when they crucified him.

The Death of Jesus

³³ When it was noon, darkness came over the whole land^[a] until three in the afternoon.

³⁴ At three o’clock Jesus cried out with a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”^[a](A)

³⁷ Then Jesus gave a loud cry and breathed his last.

³⁸ And the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom.^(A)