Matthew 21:1–9

The Triumphal Entry

^1aAnd when they had approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage, at ^bthe Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples,

²saying to them, “Go into the village opposite you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied there and a colt with her; untie them and bring them to Me.

³“And if anyone says anything to you, you shall say, ‘The Lord has need of them,’ and immediately he will send them.”

^4aAnd this ¹took place in order that what was spoken through the prophet would be fulfilled, saying,

⁵“^aSay to the daughter of Zion,

‘Behold your King is coming to you,

Lowly, and mounted on a donkey,

And on a colt, the foal of a pack animal.’”

⁶And the disciples went and did just as Jesus had instructed them,

⁷and brought the donkey and the colt, and laid their garments on them; and He sat on ¹the garments.

⁸And most of the crowd ^aspread their garments in the road, and others were cutting branches from the trees and spreading them in the road.

⁹And the crowds going ahead of Him, and those who followed, were crying out, saying,

“Hosanna to the ^aSon of David;

^bBlessed is He who comes in the name of the ¹Lord;

Hosanna ^cin the highest!”