New English Translation

John 12:7-16 New English Translation (NET)

7. So Jesus said, “Leave her alone. She has kept it for the day of my burial.

8. For you will always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me!”

9. Now a large crowd of Judeans learned that Jesus was there, and so they came not only because of him but also to see Lazarus whom he had raised from the dead.

10. So the chief priests planned to kill Lazarus too,

11. for on account of him many of the Jewish people from Jerusalem were going away and believing in Jesus.

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

13. So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him. They began to shout, “Hosanna! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord! Blessed is the king of Israel!”

14. Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, just as it is written,

15. “Do not be afraid, people of Zion; look, your king is coming, seated on a donkey’s colt!”

16. (His disciples did not understand these things when they first happened, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him and that these things had happened to him.)