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

'Fear not, daughter of Sion, lo, thy king doth come, sitting on an ass' colt.'

A woman, when she is in labor, has pain because her time [to give birth] has come; but when she has given birth to the child, she no longer remembers the anguish because of her joy that a child has come into the world.

the Jews, therefore, who were with her in the house, and were comforting her, having seen Mary that she rose up quickly and went forth, followed her, saying -- 'She doth go away to the tomb, that she may weep there.'

So Jesus said, “Let her alone, so that she may keep [the rest of] it for the day of My burial.