Christ is anointed by Mary of Bethany
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📚✭Then six days before the Passover Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus, who had died and whom he raised from the dead, was living. 2 📚✭There they made a supper for him, and Martha was serving, but Lazarus was one of those who sat at the table with him. 3 📚Then Mary took a pound of fragrant oil of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance✭ of the oil.4 📚✭Then one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, who would betray him, said, 5 📚“Why wasn’t this oil sold for three hundred silver coins✭, and given to the poor?”
6 📚✭He said this, not because he was concerned for the poor, but because he was a thief and had the money bag, and he used to take what was put in it.
7 📚✭Then Jesus said, “Leave her alone. She has kept this for the day of my burial. 8 📚For you always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me”.
9 📚Now a great many Jews found out that he was there, and they came, not only because of Jesus, but that they might also see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. 10 📚✭But the chief priests made a plot to put Lazarus also to death, 11 📚for because of him many of the Jews were going away and believing in Jesus.
Christ rides into Jerusalem
12 📚✭The next day, many people who had come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, 13 📚took palm tree branches and went out to meet him, crying out,
“Hosanna!
Blessed is the King of Israel,
coming in the name of the Lord!”
14 📚And Jesus, when he had found a young donkey, sat on it; as it is written,
15 📚Do not fear, daughter of Zion.
See, your King is coming,
sitting on a donkey’s colt.
16 📚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 that they had done these things to him. 17 📚Therefore the crowds that were with him when he called Lazarus out of his tomb, raising him from the dead, were giving testimony about it. 18 📚For this reason the people also came to meet him, for they heard that he had performed this miraculous sign✭.
19 📚✭Therefore the Pharisees said among themselves, “Don’t you see that you are accomplishing nothing? Look, the world has gone after him”.
Christ speaks of His death
20 📚✭And among those who came up to worship at the feast were some Greeks. 21 📚✭So they came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and asked him, saying, “Sir, we want to see Jesus”.
22 📚✭Philip came and told Andrew, and Andrew and Philip told Jesus.
23 📚✭And Jesus answered them, saying, “The time has come for the Son of man to be glorified. 24 📚Truly, truly✭ I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone. But if it dies, it brings forth much fruit✭. 25 📚✭He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it to life eternal. 26 📚✭If anyone serves me, he must follow me, and where I am, there my servant will also be. If anyone serves me, my Father will honour him. 27 📚Now my soul is troubled, and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour? But for this reason I have come to this hour.✭ 28 📚✭Father, glorify your name”. Then a voice came from heaven, saying, “I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again”.
29 📚Therefore the people who stood there and heard it said that it thundered. Others said, “An angel✭ spoke to him”.
30 📚✭Jesus responded and said, “This voice did not come because of me, but for your sakes. 31 📚✭Now is the judgment of this world. Now the ruler of this world✭ will be thrown out. 32 📚✭And I, if I am lifted up✭ from the earth, will draw all men to me”.
33 📚✭He said this to indicate what death he would die.
34 📚✭The people answered him, “We have heard from the Law that Christ will remain forever. How can you say, ‘The Son of man must be lifted up?’ Who is this Son of man?”
35 📚✭Then Jesus said to them, “The light will be with you only for a little while. Walk while you have the light, so darkness does not overtake you. For he who walks in darkness does not know where he is going. 36 📚✭While you have the light, believe in the light, so that you may be children of the light”. Jesus spoke these things and went away and hid himself from them.
Christ is rejected by unbelieving Jews
37 📚✭But though he had performed so many miraculous signs in front of them, still they did not believe in him, 38 📚that the word of Isaiah the prophet which he spoke might be fulfilled,
“Lord, who has believed our report?
And to whom has the arm of the Lord
been revealed?”
39 📚Therefore they could not believe, because Isaiah said again,
40 📚He has blinded their eyes
and hardened their heart,
so that they would not see
with their eyes,
or understand with their heart,
and be converted,
and be healed by me.
41 📚✭These things Isaiah said when he saw his glory and spoke of him.
42 📚✭Nevertheless even among the rulers many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, so they would not be put out of the synagogue. 43 📚For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.
Christ pleads with unbelievers
44 📚✭Jesus cried out and said, “He who believes in me, does not believe in me, but in him who sent me. 45 📚And he who sees me sees him who sent me. 46 📚✭I have come, a light, into the world, that whoever believes in me would not remain in darkness. 47 📚And if anyone hears my words, and does not believe, I do not judge him, for I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world. 48 📚✭He who rejects me and does not receive my words, has one that judges him. The word that I have spoken, it will judge him in the last day. 49 📚✭For I have not spoken on my own, but the Father who sent me commanded me what to say, and what to speak. 50 📚And I know that his command is everlasting life.✭ Therefore whatever I speak, I speak just as the Father has said to me”.