Palm Sunday, A.D. 30: Cue the donkey ... Action!

«When thousands of Christian pilgrims from around the world this weekend
take up palm branches and together descend the Mount of Olives into the
Kidron Valley to re-enact Jesus' entry into Jerusalem, they celebrate
with full knowledge of the crucifixion and resurrection that followed.
Not so the throngs joining and welcoming the procession in A.D. 30.

Jesus did not just "enter Jerusalem" – he paraded. Like the presidential
candidate who goes to Mt. Vernon to announce his intention to seek
office, Jesus linked himself – historically and geographically – to a
particular event and place in Israel's past that would resonate with the
tens of thousands of Jews who had come to Jerusalem from throughout the
Roman world to celebrate this Passover.»

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