Palm Sunday – the beginning of Holy Week
On Palm Sunday, this year Sunday, 29 March, Jesus, consciously and deliberately, chose to enter Jerusalem. He rode on a donkey, as foretold in the Old Testament, in the book of Zechariah,
“Look, your king is coming to you!
He comes triumphant and victorious,
but humble and riding on a donkey –
on a colt, the foal of a donkey.”
There were loud hosannas and the waving of palm branches, but Jesus rode a donkey, and not a war horse – the way they would expect a king to enter the city.
As the week went on the cheers changed to “Crucify him!” “Crucify him”! and although he knew this, Jesus rode on.
On Palm Sunday, this year Sunday, 29 March, Jesus, consciously and deliberately, chose to enter Jerusalem. He rode on a donkey, as foretold in the Old Testament, in the book of Zechariah,
“Look, your king is coming to you!
He comes triumphant and victorious,
but humble and riding on a donkey –
on a colt, the foal of a donkey.”
There were loud hosannas and the waving of palm branches, but Jesus rode a donkey, and not a war horse – the way they would expect a king to enter the city.
As the week went on the cheers changed to “Crucify him!” “Crucify him”! and although he knew this, Jesus rode on.
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