John 12:14-25

¹⁴Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it; as it was written,

¹⁵“Do not fear, daughter of Zion; see, your King is coming, sitting on the colt of a donkey.”

¹⁶His disciples did not understand these things at first; but when Jesus was glorified, they remembered that these things had been written about him and that they had done these things to him.

¹⁷Now the crowd testified that they had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him up from the dead.

¹⁸It was also for this reason that the crowd went out to meet him, because they heard that he had done this sign.

¹⁹The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, “Look, you can do nothing; see, the world has gone after him.”

²⁰Now certain Greeks were among those who were going up to worship at the festival.

²¹These went to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and asked him, saying, “Sir, we want to see Jesus.”

²²Philip went and told Andrew; Andrew went with Philip, and they told Jesus.

²³Jesus answered them and said, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.

²⁴Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone; but if it dies, it will bear much fruit.

²⁵He who loves his life will lose it; but he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.