The “triumphal entry” as it has come to be known marks the beginning of Holy Week on Palm Sunday. Jesus knows there is only one week left in his earthly life and that great pain is coming on Friday and resurrection on Sunday. But this moment is one of great anticipation by the followers of Jesus thinking he would use this opportunity of Passover to declare himself as Messiah and take over Jerusalem, Israel and the world. But there are forces that do not want this. Religious leaders try to quiet the crowd one, because they do not believe Jesus and, two, because they are afraid of what an uprising will bring as far as Roman retribution. They try to make Jesus silence the crowd but he refuses, centering on the verse that says, “Even if they were to remain quiet, the very stones would cry out”.

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