1Six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom he raised from the dead.
2So they made him a supper there. Martha served, but Lazarus was among those who dined at the table with him.
3Then Mary took a pound of pure nard, very precious perfume, and anointed Jesus’s feet and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.
4Then Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples, who intended to betray him, said,
5“Why wasn’t this ointment sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?”
6Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief. As the keeper of the money box, he used to steal what was put into it.
7But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. She has kept this for the day of my burial.
8For y’all will always have the poor among y’all, but y’all won’t always have me.”
9Now a large crowd of the Jews learned that he was there so they came, not only for Jesus’s sake, but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.
10But the chief priests planned to kill Lazarus also,
11because on account of him many of the Jews were leaving and believing in Jesus.
Jesus Enters Jerusalem as King12On the next day a large crowd had come to the feast. When they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,
13they took the branches of the palm trees and went out to meet him, and cried out, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord,
27 “Now my soul is troubled. What should I say? ‘Father, save me from this moment?’ But for this reason I have come to this moment.
28Father, glorify your name!”
Then a voice came out of the sky, saying, “I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.”
29So the crowd who stood by and heard it said that it had thundered. Others said, “An angel has spoken to him.”
30Jesus answered, “This voice hasn’t come for my sake, but for y’all’s sakes.
31Now judgment is on this world. Now the prince of this world will be driven out.
32And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.”
33But he said to signify the kind of death he would die.
34The crowd then answered him, “We have heard from the law that the Christ will remain forever. How do you say, ‘The Son of Humanity must be lifted up?’ Who is this Son of Humanity?”
35Then Jesus said to them, “Y’all are only going to have the light for a little while longer. Walk while y’all have the light, so that darkness doesn’t overtake y’all. Whoever walks in the darkness doesn’t know where they are going.
36While y’all have the light, believe in the light, that y’all may become children of light.” Jesus said these things, and then he departed and hid himself from them.
Responses to Jesus’s Ministry37Although Jesus had done many signs in front of them, they still didn’t believe in him.
38This was to fulfill the word of Isaiah the prophet, who said:
“Lord, who has believed our report?
To whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”
39For this reason they couldn’t believe, because again as Isaiah said:
40“Hᴇ has blinded their eyes and ʜᴇ hardened their heart,
so that they would not see with their eyes,
and perceive with their heart,
and would turn,
and I would heal them.”
41Isaiah said these things when he saw his glory and spoke of him.
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