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The triumphal entry into Jerusalem is a narrative in the four canonical Gospels describing the arrival of Jesus in Jerusalem a few days before his crucifixion. This event is celebrated each year by Christians on Palm Sunday. According to the gospels, Jesus arrived in Jerusalem to celebrate Passover, entering the city
Significance: commemorates Christ's triumphal entry into Jerusalem; first day in Holy Week: Observances: Church attendance, blessing and distribution of palms, church processions, weaving palm crosses, hanging palm branches obtained from church liturgies behind Christian artwork or placing palm branches in Bibles and daily devotional books: Date
Luke has all of this content in 19:28-20:8, except for the fig tree, and includes an explicit prediction by Jesus of Jerusalem's destruction. He also states the Pharisees tried to silence His followers praise of Him during his entry into Jerusalem and, like Matthew, Luke says Jesus expelled the money changers on the day He arrived there.
In Christianity, the palm branches distributed during Palm Sunday services originate in the triumphal entry of Christ into Jerusalem. Early Christians used the palm branch to symbolize the victory of the faithful over enemies of the soul, as in the Palm Sunday festival celebrating the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem. Many churches of ...
John 12:1 presents Jesus in Bethany "six days before the Passover", so His entry into Jerusalem can be understood as taking place five days before the Passover, on "the tenth day of the Jewish month Nisan, on which the paschal lamb was set apart to be 'kept up until the fourteenth day of the same month, when the whole assembly of the ...
Jesus: "If they keep quiet, the stones will cry out." Jesus wept and predicted the destruction of Jerusalem. John 12:16–19. The disciples did not understand why Jesus was welcomed with these words, but remembered after his death, concluding this was a prophecy that had been fulfilled. The witnesses of Jesus' raising of Lazarus had told others ...
Zechariah is delivering the prophecy of the King coming to Jerusalem, with the background of Jesus riding on an ass entering into Jerusalem and people spreading their clothes before him, waving palm branches. Illustration by Christoffel van Sichem (1645–1646). Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem:
Jesus then makes his messianic entry into Jerusalem. [120] The cheering crowds greeting Jesus as he enters Jerusalem add to the animosity between him and the establishment. [162] In John, Jesus has already cleansed the Second Temple during an earlier Passover visit to Jerusalem. John next recounts Jesus's Last Supper with his disciples. [120]