John 12:1-19 ▼

1 Six days before the passover Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, who had been dead, and raised to life again.

2 there a supper was provided for him; Martha was in waiting: but Lazarus was one of the guests that sat at table with him.

3 but Mary taking a pound of the oil of spikenard which was very costly, anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped them with her hair: so that the house was filled with the odour of the perfume.

4 whereupon one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, who was to betray him,

5 said, why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, to be given to the poor?

6 this he said, not out of any concern for the poor; but because being purse-bearer he used to pilfer what was in bank.

7 then said Jesus, let her alone: against the day of my burial hath she kept this.

8 the poor you will always have with you; but me you will not always have.

9 a great multitude of Jews knowing that Jesus was there, went thither, not for his sake only, but likewise to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.

10 for the chief priests had resolved to put even Lazarus to death;

11 because he was the occasion that many of the Jews left them, and believed on Jesus.

12 The next day, a crowd of people that were come to the feast, hearing that Jesus was on the road to Jerusalem, took branches of palm-trees,

13 and went to meet him, crying, "Hosanna, blessed is the king of Israel that comes in the name of the Lord."

14 now Jesus was riding upon a young ass, which he got by the way; as it is written,

15 "fear not, daughter of Sion: behold, thy king comes sitting on an ass's colt."

16 this passage his disciples did not understand at the first: but when Jesus was glorified, they remembred how they had mounted him, and perceiv'd that those words related to him.

17 the people that were present testified, that he called Lazarus out of his grave, and raised him from the dead.

18 and it was upon the rumour of this miracle, that the people crowded to him.

19 the Pharisees therefore said among themselves, don't you perceive we lose ground? you see what a world of followers attend him.