John 12:11-17

¹¹because on his account many of the Jews were going away, and believing in Jesus.

¹²On the next day, a great multitude that had come to the feast, hearing that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,

¹³took branches of palm-trees, and went forth to meet him, crying aloud, Hosanna! blessed is he who cometh in the name of the Lord, even the king of Israel!

¹⁴And Jesus, having found a young ass, sat thereon, as it is written,

¹⁵“Fear not, daughter of Zion! lo! thy king cometh, sitting on an ass's colt.”

¹⁶These things his disciples did not understand at the first; but when Jesus had been glorified, then they remembered that these things were written of him, and that they had done these things to him.

¹⁷The multitude therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead bore witness.