13. they took palm branches and went out to greet him. They shouted,“Hooray!God bless the one who comesin the name of the Lord!God bless the Kingof Israel!”
14. Jesus found a donkey and rode on it, just as the Scriptures say,
15. “People of Jerusalem,don't be afraid!Your King is now coming,and he is ridingon a donkey.”
16. At first, Jesus' disciples did not understand. But after he had been given his glory, they remembered all this. Everything had happened exactly as the Scriptures said it would.
17-18. A crowd had come to meet Jesus because they had seen him call Lazarus out of the tomb. They kept talking about him and this miracle.
19. But the Pharisees said to each other, “There is nothing that can be done! Everyone in the world is following Jesus.”
20. Some Greeks had gone to Jerusalem to worship during Passover.