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(A)The crowds preceding him and those following kept crying out and saying:

“Hosanna[a] to the Son of David;
    blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord;
hosanna in the highest.”

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Footnotes

  1. 21:9 Hosanna: the Hebrew means “(O Lord) grant salvation”; see Ps 118:25, but that invocation had become an acclamation of jubilation and welcome. Blessed is he…in the name of the Lord: see Ps 118:26 and the note on Jn 12:13. In the highest: probably only an intensification of the acclamation, although Hosanna in the highest could be taken as a prayer, “May God save (him).”

The crowds that went ahead of him and those that followed shouted,

“Hosanna[a] to the Son of David!”(A)

“Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!”[b](B)

“Hosanna[c] in the highest heaven!”(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 21:9 A Hebrew expression meaning “Save!” which became an exclamation of praise; also in verse 15
  2. Matthew 21:9 Psalm 118:25,26
  3. Matthew 21:9 A Hebrew expression meaning “Save!” which became an exclamation of praise; also in verse 15

39 (A)I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.’”

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39 For I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.’[a](A)

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  1. Matthew 23:39 Psalm 118:26