NEW TESTAMENT · VERSE 15

John 12:15

World English Bible Updated

“Don’t be afraid, daughter of Zion. Behold, your King comes, sitting on a donkey’s colt.”

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John 12:15 in context

John 12:12–18

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On the next day a great multitude had come to the feast. When they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,

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they 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, the King of Israel!”

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Jesus, having found a young donkey, sat on it. As it is written,

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“Don’t be afraid, daughter of Zion. Behold, your King comes, sitting on a donkey’s colt.”

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His disciples didn’t 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.

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The multitude therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead was testifying about it.

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For this cause also the multitude went and met him, because they heard that he had done this sign.

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  1. Zechariah 9:9

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