John 12:8-24

⁸For you always have the poor with you, but you don`t always have me."

⁹A large crowd 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. ¹⁰But the chief priests conspired to also put Lazarus to death, ¹¹because on account of him many of the Jews went away and believed in Jesus.

¹²On the next day a great multitude had come to the feast. When they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, ¹³they took the branches of the palm trees, and went out to meet him, and cried out, "Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, the King of Israel!" ¹⁴Jesus, having found a young donkey, sat on it. As it is written, ¹⁵"Don`t be afraid, daughter of Zion. Behold, your King comes, sitting on a donkey`s colt." ¹⁶His disciples didn`t understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him, and that they had done these things to him. ¹⁷The multitude therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb, and raised him from the dead, was testifying. ¹⁸For this cause also the multitude went and met him, because they heard that he had done this sign. ¹⁹The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, "See how you accomplish nothing. Behold, the world has gone after him."

²⁰Now there were certain Greeks among those that went up to worship at the feast. ²¹These, therefore, came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and asked him, saying, "Sir, we want to see Jesus." ²²Philip came and told Andrew, and in turn, Andrew came with Philip, and they told Jesus. ²³Jesus answered them, "The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. ²⁴Most assuredly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit.