John 12

¹Jesus therefore, six days before the pasch, came to Bethania, where Lazarus had been dead, whom Jesus raised to life.

²And they made him a supper there: and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that were at table with him.

³Mary therefore took a pound of ointment of right spikenard, of great price, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.

⁴Then one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, he that was about to betray him, said:

⁵Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?

⁶Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and having the purse, carried the things that were put therein.

⁷Jesus therefore said: Let her alone, that she may keep it against the day of my burial.

⁸For the poor you have always with you; but me you have not always.

⁹A great multitude therefore of the Jews knew that he was there; and they came, not for Jesus’ sake only, but that they might see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.

¹⁰But the chief priests thought to kill Lazarus also:

¹¹Because many of the Jews, by reason of him, went away, and believed in Jesus.

¹²And on the next day, a great multitude that was to come to the festival day, when they had heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,

¹³Took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet him, and cried: Hosanna, blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord, the king of Israel.