⁷ When they brought the colt to Jesus and threw their cloaks over it, he sat on it. ⁸ Many people spread their cloaks on the road, while others spread branches they had cut in the fields. ⁹ Those who went ahead and those who followed shouted,

¹¹ Jesus entered Jerusalem and went into the temple courts. He looked around at everything, but since it was already late, he went out to Bethany with the Twelve.^(C)

³ While he was in Bethany,^(A) reclining at the table in the home of Simon the Leper, a woman came with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, made of pure nard. She broke the jar and poured the perfume on his head.^(B)

⁸ She did what she could. She poured perfume on my body beforehand to prepare for my burial.^(A)

⁹ Truly I tell you, wherever the gospel is preached throughout the world,^(A) what she has done will also be told, in memory of her.”

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

The Death of Jesus^(A)

³³ At noon, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon.^(B)

³⁴ And at three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” (which means “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”).^[a](A)

³⁷ With a loud cry, Jesus breathed his last.^(A)

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