John 12

¹Then, six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had made to come back from the dead.

²So they made him a meal there, and he was waited on by Martha, and Lazarus was among those who were seated with him at table.

³Then Mary, taking a pound of perfumed oil of great value, put it on the feet of Jesus and made them dry with her hair: and the house became full of the smell of the perfume.

⁴But one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot (who was to give him up), said,

⁵Why was not this perfume traded for three hundred pence, and the money given to the poor?

⁶(He said this, not because he had any love for the poor; but because he was a thief, and, having the money-bag, took for himself what was put into it.)

⁷Then Jesus said, Let her be. Let her keep what she has for the day of my death.

⁸The poor you have ever with you, but me you have not for ever.

⁹Then a great number of the Jews had news that he was there: and they came, not only because of Jesus, but so that they might see Lazarus who had been dead and to whom he had given life.

¹⁰Now there was talk among the chief priests of putting Lazarus to death;

¹¹For because of him a great number of the Jews went away and had belief in Jesus.

¹²The day after, a great number of people who were there for the feast, when they had the news that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,

Took branches of palm-trees and went out to him, crying, A blessing on him who comes in the name of the Lord, the King of Israel!