What happened on Palm Sunday with Jesus?
English: Description: Left Apsis: Jesus entering Jerusalem on Palm Sunday. Fresco in the Parish Church of Zirl, Austria. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) “Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the LORD: we have blessed you out of the house of the LORD.” ( Psalm 118:26 ) This is the climactic verse of Psalm 118 , one of the great Messianic psalms. It was fulfilled, at least in a preliminary way, when Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a small donkey just one week before His resurrection, thereby acknowledging that He was fulfilling Zechariah ’s prophecy: “. . . behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding . . . upon a colt the foal of an ass” ( Zechariah 9:9 ). As He rode into the city, many “took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet him, and cried, Hosanna : Blessed is the King of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord” ( John 12:13 ). Many Christians even today still commemorate that occasion on what they call Palm Sunday , one we