We usually regard this action as the frontispiece to the Passion, and therefore to be dated on Palm Sunday in the church’s liturgical calendar. We see it as providing an object lesson in humility. Jesus condescends to ride into the city on a donkey, not a warrior’s horse. But there is symbolism too at work in this narrative. Doubtless the disciples were still thinking in terms of his march on Jerusalem as the grand entrance of the messianic prince, astride a war horse,