John 12:1-18 (Gospel)
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- Then, six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was who had been dead, whom He had raised from the dead.
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- There they made Him a supper; and Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those who sat at the table with Him.
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- Then Mary took a pound of very costly oil of spikenard, anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped His feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the oil.
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- But one of His disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, who would betray Him, said,
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- Why was this fragrant oil not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?
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- This he said, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the money box; and he used to take what was put in it.
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- But Jesus said, “Let her alone; she has kept this for the day of My burial.
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- For the poor you have with you always, but Me you do not have always.”
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- Now a great many of the Jews knew that He was there; and they came, not for Jesus’ sake only, but that they might also see Lazarus, whom He had raised from the dead.
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- But the chief priests plotted to put Lazarus to death also,
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- because on account of him many of the Jews went away and believed in Jesus.
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- The next day a great multitude that had come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,
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- took branches of palm trees and went out to meet Him, and cried out: “Hosanna! ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD!’ The King of Israel!”
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- Then Jesus, when He had found a young donkey, sat on it; as it is written:
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- “Fear not, daughter of Zion; behold, your King is coming, sitting on a donkey’s colt.”
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- His disciples did not understand these things at first; but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about Him and that they had done these things to Him.
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- Therefore the people, who were with Him when He called Lazarus out of his tomb and raised him from the dead, bore witness.
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- For this reason the people also met Him, because they heard that He had done this sign.