7. Jesus replied, “Leave her alone! She has kept this perfume for the day of my burial.
8. You will always have the poor with you, but you won't always have me.”
9. A lot of people came when they heard that Jesus was there. They also wanted to see Lazarus, because Jesus had raised him from death.
10. So the chief priests made plans to kill Lazarus.
11. He was the reason that many of the Jewish people were turning from them and putting their faith in Jesus.
12. The next day a large crowd was in Jerusalem for Passover. When they heard that Jesus was coming for the festival,
13. they took palm branches and went out to greet him. They shouted,“Hooray!God bless the one who comesin the name of the Lord!God bless the Kingof Israel!”
14. Jesus found a donkey and rode on it, just as the Scriptures say,
15. “People of Jerusalem,don't be afraid!Your King is now coming,and he is ridingon a donkey.”
16. At first, Jesus' disciples did not understand. But after he had been given his glory, they remembered all this. Everything had happened exactly as the Scriptures said it would.
17-18. A crowd had come to meet Jesus because they had seen him call Lazarus out of the tomb. They kept talking about him and this miracle.
19. But the Pharisees said to each other, “There is nothing that can be done! Everyone in the world is following Jesus.”
20. Some Greeks had gone to Jerusalem to worship during Passover.
21. Philip from Bethsaida in Galilee was there too. So they went to him and said, “Sir, we would like to meet Jesus.”