John 12

The Triumphal Entry

12 On the next day the large crowd who had come to the feast, when they**Here "when" is supplied as a component of the participle ("heard") which is understood as temporal heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, 13 took the branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, and began crying out,

"Hosanna!

Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord,*A quotation from Ps 118:25–26

even the king of Israel!"