John 12:12-19

Disciples’ Literal New Testament

Jesus The King Enters Jerusalem On a Donkey, As Predicted By Zechariah

¹² On the next day the large crowd^[a]— the one having come to the Feast— having heard^[b] that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, ¹³ took the branches of palm-trees and came out to meet Him. And they were shouting, “Hosanna! Blessed is the One coming in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel”. ¹⁴ And Jesus, having found a young-donkey, sat on it, just as it has been written [in Zech 9:9]: ¹⁵ “Do not be fearing, daughter of Zion. Behold— your King is coming, sitting on a colt of a donkey”. ¹⁶ His disciples did not understand these things at first. But when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written for^[c] Him, and that they did these things to Him. ¹⁷ Then the crowd^[d] was testifying— the one being with Him when He called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead. ¹⁸ For this reason also the crowd^[e] met Him— because they heard that He had done this sign. ¹⁹ Then the Pharisees said to themselves, “You see that you are profiting nothing! Look— the world went after Him!”