EARLY WISDOM GOSPELS 87"Do not fear, daughter of Zion.
Look, your king is coming,
sitting on a foal of a donkey."^45
His students did not understand these things at first, but when Yeshua was
glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written about him
and these things had been done for him.
The crowd that was with him when he raised Eleazar from the tomb bore
witness to it all. That was why the crowd went to meet him, for they heard that
he had performed the miraculous sign.
So the Pharisees said to one another, "You see, you can do nothing. Look,
the world has gone over to him."
YESHUA FORETELLS HIS DEATH
Now, there were some Greek Jews^46 among those who went up to worship at
the feast. They came to Philippos from Bethsaida of Galil and asked him, say-
ing, "Sir, we wish to see Yeshua."
Philippos came and told Andreas.
Andreas and Philippos came and told Yeshua.
And Yeshua answered them, saying,
"The hour has come when the earthly son is glorified.^47
Truly, truly I say to you,
unless a grain of wheat falling into the earth dies,
it remains alone.
But if it dies it brings forth a great harvest.^48
"Whoever loves life will lose it,
and whoever hates life in this world
will keep it for life everlasting.
"Let anyone who serves me, follow me,
and where I am, there also will be my servant.
Whoever serves me, the father will honor.45.Zechariah9:9.- Ethnic Greeks who had converted to Judaism.
- Glorification is the hour of his death, resurrection, and ascension.
- "Harvest" is literally "fruit." It is often translated "harvest" or "crop," since here it refers
specifically to the fruit of a wheat grain, which would be a harvest or crop.