John 12:14-25

¹⁴And finding a young donkey Jesus sat on it; just as it is written:

¹⁵“Fear no more, daughter of Zion. Look, your King is coming, sitting on a donkey's colt!”

¹⁶(Now 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 they had done them 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.

¹⁸That is also why the crowd met Him, because they heard that He had performed this sign.

¹⁹So the Pharisees said among themselves: “You can see that you are not making any difference! Just look, the world has gone off after Him!”

²⁰Now there were some Greeks among those who went up to worship at the feast.

²¹So these men approached Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and requested of him saying, “Sir, we want to see Jesus.”

²²Philip goes and tells Andrew, and in turn Andrew and Philip tell Jesus.

²³But Jesus answered them saying: “The hour has come for the Son of the Man to be glorified.

²⁴Most assuredly I say to you, if a grain of wheat, having fallen into the ground, does not die, it remains alone; but if it dies it bears a lot of fruit.

²⁵The one ‘loving’ his life will waste it, and the one ‘hating’ his life, in this world, will preserve it into eternal life.