8And a very great multitude spread their garments in the way; others cut down branches from the trees, and strawed them in the way.
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Then they hasted, and took every man his garment, and put it under him on the top of the stairs, and blew with trumpets, saying, Jehu is king.
And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days.
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.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-11)All the four evangelists take notice of this passage of Christ’s riding in triumph into Jerusalem , five days before his death. The passover was on the fourteenth day of the month, and this was the tenth; on which day the law appointed that the paschal lamb should be taken up (Exod. 12:3), and set apart for that service; on that day therefore Christ our Passover, who was to be sacrificed for us, w…
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