John 12:9-19

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Jesus enters Jerusalem

⁹ When the great crowd of Judaeans discovered that Jesus was there, they came to Bethany not just because of Jesus, but to see Lazarus, the one he had raised from the dead. ¹⁰ So the chief priests planned to kill Lazarus as well, ¹¹ because many of the Judaeans were distancing themselves on account of him, and were believing in Jesus.

¹² On the next day, the large crowd that had come up for the festival heard that Jesus had come to Jerusalem. ¹³ They took palm branches and went out to meet him.

“Hosanna!” they shouted. “Welcome in the name of the Lord! Welcome to Israel’s king!”

¹⁴ Jesus found a little donkey and sat on it. As the Bible says,

¹⁶ His disciples didn’t understand this to begin with. But when Jesus was glorified, they remembered that these things had been written about him, and that these things had been done to him. ¹⁷ The crowd that was with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb, and raised him from the dead, told their story. ¹⁸ That’s why the crowd went out to meet him, because they heard that he had done this sign.

¹⁹ The Pharisees conferred.

“You see?” they said to each other. “It’s impossible. There’s nothing you can do. Look—the world has gone off after him!”