8. You always have the poor with you, but you do not always have Me.
9. Now a great crowd of the Jews heard that He was at Bethany, and they came there, not only because of Jesus but that they also might see Lazarus, whom He had raised from the dead.
10. So the chief priests planned to put Lazarus to death also,
11. Because on account of him many of the Jews were going away [were withdrawing from and leaving the Judeans] and believing in and adhering to Jesus.
12. The next day a vast crowd of those who had come to the Passover Feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem.
13. So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet Him. And as they went, they kept shouting, Hosanna! Blessed is He and praise to Him Who comes in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel! [Ps. 118:26.]
14. And Jesus, having found a young donkey, rode upon it, [just] as it is written in the Scriptures,
15. Do not fear, O Daughter of Zion! Look! Your King is coming, sitting on a donkey's colt! [Zech. 9:9.]
16. His disciples did not understand and could not comprehend the meaning of these things at first; but when Jesus was glorified and exalted, they remembered that these things had been written about Him and had been done to Him.
17. The group that had been with Jesus when He called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from among the dead kept telling it [bearing witness] to others.
18. It was for this reason that the crowd went out to meet Him, because they had heard that He had performed this sign (proof, miracle).