Add parallel Print Page Options

(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.”

Read full chapter

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).”

10 And when he entered Jerusalem the whole city was shaken[a] and asked, “Who is this?”

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 21:10 Was shaken: in the gospels this verb is peculiar to Matthew where it is used also of the earthquake at the time of the crucifixion (Mt 27:51) and of the terror of the guards of Jesus’ tomb at the appearance of the angel (Mt 28:4). For Matthew’s use of the cognate noun, see note on Mt 8:24.