John 12:11-17

¹¹because it was owing to him that many of the people had left them, and were becoming believers in Jesus.

¹²On the following day great numbers of people who had come to the Festival, hearing that Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem, took palm branches,

¹³and went out to meet him, shouting as they went, “God save Him! Blessed is He who Comes in the name of the Lord — The king of Israel!”

¹⁴Having found a young ass, Jesus seated himself on it, in accordance with the passage of scripture —

¹⁵‘Fear not, people of Zion; Your king is coming to you, Sitting on the foal of an ass.’

¹⁶His disciples did not understand all this at first; but, when Jesus had been exalted, then they remembered that these things had been said of him in scripture, and that they had done these things for him.

¹⁷Meanwhile the people who were with him, when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead, were telling what they had seen.