12 The next day a large crowd of people who had come for the celebrations and had heard that Yeshua was coming to Yerusalem 13 [ref]took long branches from palm trees and brought them out as they went to meet him. They called out, “Honoured saviour! The one coming in the authority of the master has been blessed by God. This is Israel’s king.”

14 Now Yeshua had found a young donkey and rode it into the city just like it was written in the scriptures,

15 [ref]“Don’t be worried you children of Zion. Your king is coming mounted on a donkey’s foal.”

16 (Yeshua’s apprentices didn’t realise all these things at the time, but it was later after Yeshua was lifted up to heaven that they were reminded that these things had been written about him, and that they had indeed happened to him.)

17 People in the crowd were telling each other about how they’d been with Yeshua when he’d called Lazarus out from the burial chamber and brought him back to life, 18 So because of this, others also wanted to met Yeshua because they’d heard that he’d done that miracle. 19 So the Pharisees discussed this together, “We’re getting nowhere with this. Look, it seems like the whole world wants to follow him.”