The story
It was springtime, and crowds were going up to Jerusalem for the great feast of the Passover. Near the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciples ahead to a little village. There they would find a donkey tied up, with her young colt beside her, and if anyone asked, they were to say that the Lord needed them. Everything was just as Jesus had said.
The disciples laid their cloaks on the colt, and Jesus sat on it. Long before, a prophet had said that Jerusalem’s king would come meek and gentle, riding on a donkey, not on a big war horse. As Jesus rode down the hill, a great crowd spread their cloaks on the road, like a carpet for a king. Others cut branches from the trees, and Saint John tells us they were palms.
Everyone sang and shouted, “Hosanna to the son of David: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest.” The whole city asked who he was, and the crowds answered that he was Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth. In the temple even the children sang Hosanna, and Jesus was glad to hear them. That day began Holy Week, the most special week of the year, which leads to Easter.
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