The Life of Jesus

the chief priests, therefore, and the Pharisees, gathered together a sanhedrim, and said, `What may we do? because this man doth many signs?

if we may let him alone thus, all will believe in him; and the Romans will come, and will take away both our place and nation.'

and a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being chief priest of that year, said to them, `Ye have not known anything,

nor reason that it is good for us that one man may die for the people, and not the whole nation perish.'

And this he said not of himself, but being chief priest of that year, he did prophesy that Jesus was about to die for the nation,

and not for the nation only, but that also the children of God, who have been scattered abroad, he may gather together into one.

From that day, therefore, they took counsel together that they may kill him;

Jesus, therefore, was no more freely walking among the Jews, but went away thence to the region nigh the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim, and there he tarried with his disciples.

And the passover of the Jews was nigh, and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the passover, that they might purify themselves;

they were seeking, therefore, Jesus, and said one with another, standing in the temple, `What doth appear to you--that he may not come to the feast?'

and both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a command, that if any one may know where he is, he may shew it , so that they may seize him.

Jesus, therefore, six days before the passover, came to Bethany, where was Lazarus, who had died, whom he raised out of the dead;

they made, therefore, to him a supper there, and Martha was ministering, and Lazarus was one of those reclining together (at meat) with him;

Mary, therefore, having taken a pound of ointment of spikenard, of great price, anointed the feet of Jesus and did wipe with her hair his feet, and the house was filled from the fragrance of the ointment.

Therefore saith one of his disciples--Judas Iscariot, of Simon, who is about to deliver him up--

`Wherefore was not this ointment sold for three hundred denaries, and given to the poor?'

and he said this, not because he was caring for the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and what things were put in he was carrying.

Jesus, therefore, said, `Suffer her; for the day of my embalming she hath kept it,

for the poor ye have always with yourselves, and me ye have not always.'

A great multitude, therefore, of the Jews knew that he is there, and they came, not because of Jesus only, but that Lazarus also they may see, whom he raised out of the dead;

and the chief priests took counsel, that also Lazarus they may kill,

because on account of him many of the Jews were going away, and were believing in Jesus.

On the morrow, a great multitude that came to the feast, having heard that Jesus doth come to Jerusalem,

took the branches of the palms, and went forth to meet him, and were crying, `Hosanna, blessed is he who is coming in the name of the Lord--the king of Israel;'

and Jesus having found a young ass did sit upon it, according as it is written,