11. because on account of him many of the Jewish people were going and putting their trust in Yeshua.
12. The next day, the huge crowd that had come up for the feast heard that Yeshua was coming to Jerusalem.
13. So they took palm branches and went out to meet Him, shouting, “‘Hoshia-na! Baruch ha-ba b’shem Adonai! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’ The King of Israel!”
14. Finding a young donkey, Yeshua sat on it, as it is written,
15. “Fear not, Daughter of Zion! Look! Your King is coming, sitting on a donkey’s colt.”
16. His disciples did not understand these things at first. But when Yeshua was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about Him and that the crowd had done these things for Him.
17. So the crowd, which had been with Yeshua when He called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead, kept on telling everyone about it.
18. It was also for this reason that the crowd came out to meet Him, because they heard that He had performed this sign.
19. So the Pharisees said to each other, “You see that you can’t do anything. Look, the whole world has taken off after Him!”
20. Now there were some Greeks among those who were going up to worship at the feast.
21. These came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in the Galilee. “Sir,” they said, “we want to see Yeshua.”
22. Philip comes and tells Andrew; Andrew and Philip come and tell Yeshua.
23. Yeshua answers them, saying, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified!
24. Amen, amen I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls to the earth and dies, it remains alone. But if it dies, it produces much fruit.
25. He who loves his life will lose it, and the one who hates his life in this world will keep it forever.