Mark 11:8-10

Contemporary English Version

⁸Many people spread clothes on the road, while others spread branches they had cut from the fields.^[a]

⁹^(A) In front of Jesus and behind him, people went along shouting,

“Hooray!^[b]
God bless the one who comes
    in the name of the Lord!
¹⁰God bless the coming kingdom
    of our ancestor David.
Hooray for God
    in heaven above!”

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Footnotes

11.8 spread … branches from the fields: This was one way that the Jewish people welcomed a famous person.
11.9 Hooray: This translates a word that can mean “please save us.” But it is most often used as a shout of praise to God.