¹²The next day the large crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem. ¹³So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him. They began to shout, “Hosanna! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord! Blessed is the king of Israel!” ¹⁴Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, just as it is written, ¹⁵“Do not be afraid, people of Zion; look, your king is coming, seated on a donkey’s colt!” ¹⁶(His disciples did not understand these things when they first happened, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him and that these things had happened to him.) ¹⁷So the crowd who had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead were continuing to testify about it.¹⁸Because they had heard that Jesus had performed this miraculous sign, the crowd went out to meet him. ¹⁹Thus the Pharisees said to one another, “You see that you can do nothing. Look, the world has run off after him!” ²⁰Now some Greeks were among those who had gone up to worship at the feast. ²¹So these approached Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and requested, “Sir, we would like to see Jesus.” ²²Philip went and told Andrew, and they both went and told Jesus. ²³Jesus replied, “The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. ²⁴I tell you the solemn truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it produces much grain. ²⁵The one who loves his life destroys it, and the one who hates his life in this world guards it for eternal life. ²⁶If anyone wants to serve me, he must follow me, and where I am, my servant will be too. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him. ²⁷“Now my soul is greatly distressed. And what should I say? ‘Father, deliver me from this hour’? No, but for this very reason I have come to this hour. ²⁸Father, glorify your name.” Then a voice came from heaven, “I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.”