New King James Version

John 12:7-14 New King James Version (NKJV)

7. But Jesus said, “Let her alone; she has kept this for the day of My burial.

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

9. Now a great many of the Jews knew that He was there; and they came, not for Jesus’ sake only, but that they might also see Lazarus, whom He had raised from the dead.

10. But the chief priests plotted to put Lazarus to death also,

11. because on account of him many of the Jews went away and believed in Jesus.

12. The next day a great multitude that had come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,

13. took branches of 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!”

14. Then Jesus, when He had found a young donkey, sat on it; as it is written: