Palm Sunday
Palm Sunday, one week before Easter,
celebrates the entry of Jesus into
Jerusalem. Holy Week begins on this day.
Holy Thursday, or Maundy
Thursday, is in memory of the Last Supper of Christ with his
disciples. Good Friday commemorates the
crucifixion.
LUKE 19, MATTHEW 21
And when they approached Jerusalem and had come to Bethphage, to the Mount of
Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples, saying to them, "Go into the village opposite
you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied there and a colt with her; untie them,
and bring them to Me.
And if anyone says
something to you, you shall say, "The Lord has need of them." And the disciples went and did just as Jesus had directed them, and
brought the donkey and the colt, and laid on them their garments, on which He sat.
And most of the multitude spread their garments in the road,
and the others were cutting branches from the trees, and spreading them in the road.
And the multitudes going before Him, and those who followed
after were crying out, saying,
"Hosanna to the Son of David;
Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest!"
And when He entered Jerusalem, all the city was stirred, saying, "Who is this?"
 And the multitudes were saying, "This is the prophet
Jesus, from the Nazareth in Galilee."
And Jesus entered the temple and cast out all those who were buying and selling in the
temple, and overturned the tables of the moneychangers and the seat of those who were
selling doves.
And He said to them, "It is written, 'My House shall be called a house of prayer';
but you are making it a robbers'den."
And the blind and the lame came to
Him in the temple, and He
healed them.
But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful
things that He had done, and
the children who were crying out in the temple and saying, "Hosanna to the Son of
David," they became angry.
But when they tried to lay their hands on him, they were afraid of the multitude because
it took him for a prophet. Later he left the city and went
out to the city of Bethany, and lodged there.
Illustrations:
1) The Entry into Jerusalem, Duccio, 1308-11
2) The Entry into Jerusalem, Illustration from The Children Bible, Golden Press
3) The Healing of the Possessed, Mattia Preti, 1613-99
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