JETS 44:2 (June 2001) p. 216 nor the Roman officials interpreted this as an openly messianic act. The welcome of Jesus into Jerusalem was seen by the crowds as the entrance of a famous and beloved prophet who was greeted like other pilgrims (only more enthusiastically) with a Pilgrim Psalm. Pilate’s hesitancy in condemning Jesus is unexplainable if Jesus openly presented himself as a messianic deliverer in the way that Wright claims. I would like to finish my brief critique