Palm Sunday is a Christian moveable feast that falls on the Sunday before Easter. The feast commemorates Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem, an event mentioned in each of
the four canonical Gospels.
In many Christian denominations, worship services
on Palm Sunday include a procession of the faithful carrying palms,
representing the palm branches the crowd scattered in front of Jesus as he rode
into Jerusalem. The difficulty of procuringpalms in unfavorable climates led to
their substitution with branches of native trees, including box, olive, willow, and yew. The Sunday was often named after
these substitute trees, as in Yew
Sunday, or by the general term Branch
Sunday.
In the accounts of the four canonical Gospels, Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem takes place about a week before his Resurrection.
Christian theologians believe that the
symbolism is captured prophetically in the Old Testament: Zechariah 9:9 "The Coming of Zion's King – See, your king comes
to you, righteous and victorious, lowly and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the
foal of a donkey". It suggests that Jesus was declaring he was the King of Israel to the anger of the Sanhedrin.
According to the Gospels, Jesus
rode a donkey into Jerusalem, and the celebrating people there laid down their
cloaks and small branches of trees in front of him, and sang part of Psalm 118: 25–26 – ...
Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord. We bless you from the house of the Lord ....
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