1 Jesus and his disciples reached Bethphageand Bethanynear the Mount of Olives. When they were getting close to Jerusalem, Jesus sent two of them on ahead. 2 He told them, "Go into the next village. As soon as you enter it, you will find a young donkey that has never been ridden. Untie the donkey and bring it here. 3 If anyone asks why you are doing this, say, ‘The Lord11.3 The Lord: Or "The master of the donkey."needs it and will soon bring it back.’ "
4 The disciples left and found the donkey tied near a door that faced the street. While they were untying it, 5 some of the people standing there asked, "Why are you untying the donkey?" 6 They told them what Jesushad said, and the people let them take it.
7 The disciples led the donkey to Jesus. They put some of their clothes on its back, and Jesusgot on. 8 Many people spread clothes on the road, while others spread branches they had cut from the fields.11.8 spread … branches from the fields: This was one way that the Jewish people welcomed a famous person.
9 Ps 118.25,26.In front of Jesus and behind him, people went along shouting,
"Hooray!11.9 Hooray: This translates a word that can mean "please save us." But it is most often used as a shout of praise to God.
God bless the one who comes
in the name of the Lord!
10 God bless the coming kingdom
of our ancestor David.
Hooray for God
in heaven above!"
11 After Jesushad gone to Jerusalem, he went into the temple and looked around at everything. But since it was already late in the day, he went back to Bethanywith the twelve disciples.
Bethany is the village of Lazarus, Mary and her sister Martha, about fifteen stadia from Jerusalem; Jesus spent the night there and was in the home of Simon the leper (John 11:1).
The Mount of Olives is a hill near Jerusalem where Jesus spent the nights while teaching each day at the temple and where David went up weeping, his head covered (Luke 21:37).
Jerusalem is the city of the house of God, where children of Judah and Benjamin lived; the Babylonian army broke down the walls of the city (2 Kings 25:10).
Jesus, the Christ, the Son of God, was born of Mary in Bethlehem, proclaimed the kingdom of God, died by crucifixion under Pontius Pilate, and was raised on the third day (Matthew 1:16).
Jesus, the Christ, the Son of God, was born of Mary in Bethlehem, proclaimed the kingdom of God, died by crucifixion under Pontius Pilate, and was raised on the third day (Matthew 1:16).
Jesus, the Christ, the Son of God, was born of Mary in Bethlehem, proclaimed the kingdom of God, died by crucifixion under Pontius Pilate, and was raised on the third day (Matthew 1:16).
David, son of Jesse, was a shepherd in Bethlehem when Samuel anointed him; he defeated Goliath, reigned over Israel in Jerusalem, and wrote many of the psalms (1 Samuel 16:13).
Jesus, the Christ, the Son of God, was born of Mary in Bethlehem, proclaimed the kingdom of God, died by crucifixion under Pontius Pilate, and was raised on the third day (Matthew 1:16).
Jerusalem is the city of the house of God, where children of Judah and Benjamin lived; the Babylonian army broke down the walls of the city (2 Kings 25:10).
Bethany is the village of Lazarus, Mary and her sister Martha, about fifteen stadia from Jerusalem; Jesus spent the night there and was in the home of Simon the leper (John 11:1).