3. Then Miryam took a pound of costly perfume of nard, anointed the feet of יהושע, and wiped His feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.
4. Then one of His taught ones, Yehuḏah from Qerioth, son of Shim‛on, who was about to deliver Him up, said,
5. “Why was this perfume not sold for three hundred pieces of silver and given to the poor?”
6. And he said this, not because he was concerned about the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and he used to take what was put in it.
7. יהושע then 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. Then a great crowd of the Yehuḏim learned that He was there. And they came, not on account of יהושע only, but also to see El‛azar, whom He had raised from the dead.
10. And the chief priests resolved to kill El‛azar as well,
11. because on account of him many of the Yehuḏim went away and believed in יהושע.
12. On the next day a great crowd who had come to the festival, when they heard that יהושע was coming to Yerushalayim,
13. took the branches of palm trees and went out to meet Him, and were crying out, “Hoshia-na! Blessed is He who is coming in the Name of יהוה, the Sovereign of Yisra’ĕl!”
14. And יהושע, having found a young donkey, sat on it, as it has been written:
15. “Do not fear, daughter of Tsiyon, see, your Sovereign is coming, sitting on the colt of a donkey.”