John 12:12-19 Entering Jerusalem


On the next day, the great crowd which had come  to the festival heard that that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, took branches from the palm trees and went out to him and they  began to cry out:

Hosanna!
Blessed is he, who comes in the name of the Lord – the King of Israel!

Then Jesus finding a young donkey, sat on it, as it is written:
Do not fear, Daughter Zion,
Behold your King is coming,
Seated on a colt of a donkey
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His disciples did not understand these things at first, but they remembered these things were written about him when Jesus was glorified and that they did these things to him. 

So the crowd, who had been with him when he called Lazarus from the tomb and raised him from the dead, bore witness. Because of this, the [other] crowd met him, because they had heard that he had done this sign. 

Then the Pharisees said to one another ‘See – you can get nothing done! Watch out,  the world has gone after him!’

Thank you, dear Jesus,
for all you have given me,
for all you have taken away from me,
for all you have left me.

Thomas More (c.1478-1535)

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