Orthodox Jewish Bible

Yochanan 12:8-14 Orthodox Jewish Bible (OJB)

8. For haAniyim you have always with you, but you do not always have me. [DEVARIM 15:11]

9. When the great multitude of the Yehudim had da'as of where Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was, they came not only because of him, but also because of El'azar, that they may see the one whom he made to stand up alive from the mesim.

10. But the Rashei Hakohanim took counsel that they also might kill El'azar,

11. Because many of the Yehudim were leaving and believing in Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach on account of El'azar.

12. On the next day the great multitude, the one having come to the Chag (Feast), having heard that Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach is coming to Yerushalayim,

13. Took the branches of the temarim (palms) [VAYIKRA 23:40] and went out to a meeting with him and were crying out: HOSHAN NAH [TEHILLIM 118:25-26] BARUCH HABAH B'SHEM ADONOI! [TZEFANYAH 3:15 TARGUM HASHIVIM] Melech Yisroel!

14. And he found an ayir (young donkey), and he sat on it, just as it has been written,