13. they took palm branches and went out to meet Him. They kept shouting: “Hosanna! He who comes in the name of the Lord is the blessed One — the King of Israel! ”
14. Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, just as it is written:
15. Fear no more, Daughter Zion. Look, your King is coming, sitting on a donkey’s colt.
16. His disciples did not understand these things at first. However, when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written about Him and that they had done these things to Him.
17. Meanwhile, the crowd, which had been with Him when He called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead, continued to testify.
18. This is also why the crowd met Him, because they heard He had done this sign.
19. Then the Pharisees said to one another, “You see? You’ve accomplished nothing. Look — the world has gone after Him! ”
20. Now some Greeks were among those who went up to worship at the festival.
21. So they came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and requested of him, “Sir, we want to see Jesus.”
22. Philip went and told Andrew; then Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus.
23. Jesus replied to them, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.
24. “I assure you: Unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains by itself. But if it dies, it produces a large crop.
25. The one who loves his life will lose it, and the one who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.