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John - ch 12 v 1 - 20
- Jesus therefore six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus raised from the dead.
- So they made him a supper there: and Martha served; but Lazarus was one of them that sat at meat with him.
- Mary therefore took a pound of ointment of pure nard, very precious, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odor of the ointment.
- But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples, that should betray him, saith,
- Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred shillings, and given to the poor?
- Now this he said, not because he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and having the bag took away what was put therein.
- Jesus therefore said, Suffer her to keep it against the day of my burying.
- For the poor ye have always with you; but me ye have not always.
- The common people therefore of the Jews learned that he was there: and they came, not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.
- But the chief priests took counsel that they might put Lazarus also to death;
- because that by reason of him many of the Jews went away, and believed on Jesus.
- On the morrow a great multitude that had come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,
- took the branches of the palm trees, and went forth to meet him, and cried out, Hosanna: Blessed `is' he that cometh in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel.
- And Jesus, having found a young ass, sat thereon; as it is written,
- Fear not, daughter of Zion: behold, thy King cometh, sitting on an ass's colt.
- These things understood not his disciples at the first: but when Jesus was glorified, then remembered they that these things were written of him, and that they had done these things unto him.
- The multitude therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb, and raised him from the dead, bare witness.
- For this cause also the multitude went and met him, for that they heard that he had done this sign.
- The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, Behold how ye prevail nothing: lo, the world is gone after him.
- Now there were certain Greeks among those that went up to worship at the feast:
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