Bibliography/Resources

• The  Gospel of Matthew (Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture)
• Verbum Bible Software - www.verbum.com

References

• 1 Kings 1:32-40 - Solomon rides triumphantly into Jerusalem after his royal anointing
• Zechariah 14: 3-4, 9 - "Then the LORD will go forth and fight against those nations as when he fights on a day of battle. On that day his feet shall stand on the Mount of Olives which lies before Jerusalem on the east. [...] And the LORD will become king over all the earth; on that day the LORD will be one and his name one."
• 2 Samuel 15: 30 - "David went up the ascent of the Mount of Olives, weeping as he went, barefoot and with his head covered; and all the people who were with him covered their heads, and they went up, weeping as they went."
• 2 Samuel 16:1 - "When David had passed a little beyond the summit, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of asses saddled"
• Zechariah 9:9 - "Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Lo, your king comes to you; triumphant and victorious is he, humble and riding on an ass, on a colt the foal of an ass."
• Genesis 49:10 - "The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs; and to him shall be the obedience of the peoples. Binding his foal to the vine and his ass’s colt to the choice vine."
• Mark 11:2 - "'Go into the village opposite you, and immediately as you enter it you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever sat; untie it and bring it.'"
• 2 Kings 9:13 - "Then in haste every man of them took his garment, and put it under him on the bare steps, and they blew the trumpet, and proclaimed, 'Jehu is king.'"
• Psalm 118:27 - "Bind the festal procession with branches"
• 1 Maccabees 13:51 - "On the twenty-third day of the second month, in the one hundred and seventy-first year, the Jews entered it [the city] with praise and palm branches"
• 2 Maccabees 10:7 - "Bearing ivy-wreathed wands and beautiful branches and also fronds of palm, they offered hymns of thanksgiving to him who had given success to the purifying of his own holy place."