The Entry into Jerusalem.* 12i On the next day, when the great crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, 13they took palm branches* and went out to meet him, and cried out:
“Hosanna!
Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord,
[even] the king of Israel.”j
14Jesus found an ass and sat upon it, as is written:
15“Fear no more, O daughter Zion;*
see, your king comes, seated upon an ass’s colt.”k
16His disciples did not understand this at first, but when Jesus had been glorified they remembered that these things were written about him and that they had done this* for him.l 17* So the crowd that was with him when he called Lazarus from the tomb and raised him from death continued to testify. 18This was [also] why the crowd went to meet him, because they heard that he had done this sign. 19So the Pharisees said to one another, “You see that you are gaining nothing. Look, the whole world* has gone after him.”m
The Coming of Jesus’ Hour.* 20Now there were some Greeks* among those who had come up to worship at the feast.n 21* They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and asked him, “Sir, we would like to see Jesus.”o 22Philip went and told Andrew; then Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus.p 23* Jesus answered them,q “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. 24* Amen, amen, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains just a grain of wheat;r but if it dies, it produces much fruit. 25Whoever loves his life* loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will preserve it for eternal life.s 26Whoever serves me must follow me, and where I am, there also will my servant be. The Father will honor whoever serves me.t
27“I am troubled* now. Yet what should I say? ‘Father, save me from this hour’? But it was for this purpose that I came to this hour.u 28Father, glorify your name.” Then a voice came from heaven, “I have glorified it and will glorify it again.”v 29The crowd there heard it and said it was thunder; but others said, “An angel has spoken to him.”w 30Jesus answered and said, “This voice did not come for my sake but for yours
