Palm Sunday marks the day Jesus entered Jerusalem and the beginning of the week of his passion, which, in the context of this article, refers to his suffering and death on the cross.
But if you did not know that and you were to look up the word passion in a modern dictionary (for instance, my computer’s built-in New Oxford American Dictionary), you would likely find these as the top three definitions: (1) “strong and barely controllable emotion”; (2) “an intense desire or enthusiasm for something”; (3) “intense sexual love.” These are the kinds of things we associate with the word passion in our society.
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