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This he said, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the money box; and he used to take what was put in it.
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But Jesus said, "Let her alone; she has kept this for the day of My burial.
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For the poor you have with you always, but Me you do not have always."
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Now a great many of the Jews knew that He was there; and they came, not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might also see Lazarus, whom He had raised from the dead.
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But the chief priests plotted to put Lazarus to death also,
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because on account of him many of the Jews went away and believed in Jesus.
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The next day a great multitude that had come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,
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took branches of palm trees and went out to meet Him, and cried out: "Hosanna! 'Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!' The King of Israel!"
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Then Jesus, when He had found a young donkey, sat on it; as it is written:
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"Fear not, daughter of Zion; Behold, your King is coming, Sitting on a donkey's colt."
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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.