Holman Christian Standard Bible

John 12:8-15 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

8. For you always have the poor with you, but you do not always have Me.”

9. Then a large crowd of the Jews learned He was there. They came not only because of Jesus, but also to see Lazarus the one He had raised from the dead.

10. Therefore the chief priests decided to kill Lazarus also

11. because he was the reason many of the Jews were deserting them and believing in Jesus.

12. The next day, when the large crowd that had come to the festival heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,

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.