John 12:11-17

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

¹²The next day, when a great multitude that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,

¹³they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet Him, and shouted: “Hosanna! ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD!’ The King of Israel!”

¹⁴Then Jesus, finding a young donkey, sat on it, as it is written:

¹⁵“Don’t be afraid, Daughter of Zion; look, your king is coming, sitting on a donkey’s colt.”

¹⁶His disciples didn’t 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.

¹⁷So the crowd that had been with Him when He called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead continued to testify.