On Palm Sunday, which is the Sunday before Easter, Jesus rode from
Bethany on the other side of the Mount of Olives into Jerusalem on a
young ass. This came to pass, that it might be fulfilled which was
spoken by the prophet Zechariah: Tell ye the daughter of Zion: Behold,
thy King cometh unto thee, meek and riding upon the foal of an ass. Many
of the people cut branches from the palm trees and spread them in the
way, and the most part spread their garments in the way and cried,
saying: Hosanna[7] to the Son of David; Blessed is He that cometh in the
name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest.
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Footnote 7: Hosanna means: Save now.
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And when He drew nigh and saw the city, He wept over it, saying: If thou
hadst known, even in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy
peace! But now they are hid from thine eyes. Therefore the days shall
come when thine enemies shall compass thee round, and keep thee in on
every side, and shall dash thee to the ground, and they shall not leave
in thee one stone upon another, because thou knowest not the time of thy
visitation. And He entered into the city and went to the court of the
temple, and healed the blind and the lame that came to Him.
In the evening He went out to Bethany, and every day He came into the
temple and was teaching, and the people hung upon Him, listening. The
priests and the scribes came together at the palace of Caiaphas, and
consulted how they might by craft take Jesus. And Judas Iscariot came to
them and said: What will ye give me, and I will deliver Him unto you?
And they gave him thirty pieces of silver. And from that time he sought
opportunity to betray his Lord. (Matt. 21:1-17; 26:14-16; Luke
19:41-44.)