Six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, the home of Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.
They gave a dinner for him there. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those at the table with him.
Mary took a pound of costly perfume made of pure nard, anointed Jesus’ feet, and wiped them with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.
But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (the one who was about to betray him), said,
“Why was this perfume not sold for three hundred denarii and the money given to the poor?”
He said this not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief; he kept the common purse and used to steal what was put into it.
Jesus said, “Leave her alone. She bought it so that she might keep it for the day of my burial.
You always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me.”
A large crowd of the Jews learned that he was there and came, not only because of Jesus but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.
So the chief priests planned to put Lazarus to death as well,
because on account of him many of the Jews were deserting and were believing in Jesus.
The next day a large crowd that had come to the festival heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem.
So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, shouting, “Hosanna! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord—the King of Israel!”
Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, as it is written:
“Do not be afraid, daughter of Zion. Look, your king is coming, sitting on a donkey’s colt.”
His disciples did not understand these things at first; but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written of him and had been done to him.
The crowd that had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead continued to testify.
It was also because they heard that he had performed this sign that the crowd went to meet him.
So the Pharisees said to one another, “You see, you can do nothing. Look, the world has gone after him!”
Then Jesus told them, “Now the hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.
Very truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.
Those who love their life lose it, and those who hate their life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
Whoever serves me must follow me, and where I am, there will my servant be also. Whoever serves me, the Father will honor.
“Now my soul is troubled. And what should I say—‘Father, save me from this hour’? No, it is for this reason that I have come to this hour.
Father, glorify your name.” Then a voice came from heaven, “I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.”
The crowd standing there heard it and said that it was thunder. Others said, “An angel has spoken to him.”
Jesus answered, “This voice has come for your sake, not for mine.
Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world will be driven out.
And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.”
He said this to indicate the kind of death he was to die.
The crowd answered him, “We have heard from the law that the Messiah remains forever. How can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?”
Jesus said to them, “The light is with you for a little longer. Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness may not overtake you. Whoever walks in the darkness does not know where they are going.
While you have the light, believe in the light, so that you may become children of light.” After saying this, he went away and hid from them.
Although he had performed so many signs before them, they did not believe in him,
so that the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: “Lord, who has believed our message, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”
Therefore they could not believe. Indeed, Isaiah said again,
“He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, so that they would not see with their eyes and understand with their heart and turn—and I would heal them.”
Isaiah said these things because he saw his glory and spoke of him.
Nevertheless, many even of the authorities believed in him, but they would not confess it, so that they would not be put out of the synagogue;
for they loved human praise more than praise from God.
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