John 12:14-25

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.

¹⁸This, indeed, was why the crowd met him — because people had heard that he had given this sign of his mission.

¹⁹So the Pharisees said to one another, “You see that you are gaining nothing! Why, all the world has run after him!”

²⁰Amongst those who were going up to worship at the Festival were some Greeks,

²¹who went to Philip of Bethsaida in Galilee, and said, “Sir, we wish to see Jesus.”

²²Philip went and told Andrew, and then together they went and told Jesus.

²³This was his reply — “The time has come for the Son of Man to be exalted.

²⁴In truth I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains solitary; but, if it dies, it becomes fruitful.

²⁵A person who loves their life loses it; while someone who hates their life in the present world will preserve it for eternal life.