Can we remember from our Sunday School lessons – Jesus enters Jerusalem on a donkey, the crowds of common people going wild, welcoming him with shouts of praise, laying down their garments and palms spread before him on the dusty road. The images are strong; we often took away mementoes of the cut palms we often kept for a year. The facts of the story were clear enough.
Jesus entered Jerusalem, having recently performed mighty miracles of healing and even raising Lazarus from the dead. The population marveled at His wisdom and power, His preaching and moral challenges; His feeding of peoples’ empty stomachs and empty souls.
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