John 12:8-16 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

8. For the poor, you have with you always. But me, you do always not have."

9. Now a great multitude of the Jews knew that he was in that place, and so they came, not so much because of Jesus, but so that they might see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.

10. And the leaders of the priests planned to put Lazarus to death also.

11. For many of the Jews, because of him, were going away and were believing in Jesus.

12. Then, on the next day, the great crowd that had come to the feast day, when they had heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,

13. took branches of palm trees, and they went ahead to meet him. And they were crying out: "Hosanna! Blessed is he who arrives in the name of the Lord, the king of Israel!"

14. And Jesus found a small donkey, and he sat upon it, just as it is written:

15. "Do not be afraid, daughter of Zion. Behold, your king arrives, sitting on the colt of a donkey."

16. At first, his disciples did not realize these things. But when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him, and that these things happened to him.

John 12