5. "Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the needy?"
6. Now he said this, not out of concern for the needy, but because he was a thief and, since he held the purse, he used to carry what was put into it.
7. But Jesus said: "Permit her, so that she may keep it against the day of my burial.
8. For the poor, you have with you always. But me, you do always not have."
9. Now a great multitude of the Jews knew that he was in that place, and so they came, not so much because of Jesus, but so that they might see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.
10. And the leaders of the priests planned to put Lazarus to death also.
11. For many of the Jews, because of him, were going away and were believing in Jesus.
12. Then, on the next day, the great crowd that had come to the feast day, when they had heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,
13. took branches of palm trees, and they went ahead to meet him. And they were crying out: "Hosanna! Blessed is he who arrives in the name of the Lord, the king of Israel!"
14. And Jesus found a small donkey, and he sat upon it, just as it is written:
15. "Do not be afraid, daughter of Zion. Behold, your king arrives, sitting on the colt of a donkey."
16. At first, his disciples did not realize these things. But when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him, and that these things happened to him.
17. And so the crowd that had been with him, when he called Lazarus from the tomb and raised him from the dead, offered testimony.
18. Because of this, too, the crowd went out to meet him. For they heard that he had accomplished this sign.