Palm Sunday Basics
These are the two things the crowd laid on the ground for Jesus to ride over.
What are palm branches and cloaks (coats)?
Instead of a war horse, Jesus chose to ride this animal to show he came in peace.
What is a donkey (or colt)?
This many days before His crucifixion did Jesus enter Jerusalem.
What is seven?
The person riding the donkey that everyone was cheering for.
Who is Jesus?
According to the Gospels, this is the specific reason the crowd was waving branches and laying down their coats.
What is to welcome Jesus as King?
This is the city Jesus was entering when the crowds greeted him with palm branches.
What is Jerusalem?
If anyone asked why they were taking the animal, Jesus told the disciples to say this three-word phrase.
What is "The Lord needs it" (or "The Lord has need of it")?
When the Pharisees told Jesus to quiet the crowd, he said if they were silent, these would "cry out."
What are stones?
These Religious Leaders were the ones who got angry and told Jesus to make the crowds be quiet.
Who are the Pharisees?
When the disciples went to get the donkey, they found it in a village called Bethphage, which is located on this famous hill.
What is the Mount of Olives?
Palm Sunday marks the beginning of this final week before Easter.
What is Holy Week?
According to the Gospels of Mark and Luke, this was the unique status of the colt Jesus rode.
What is "never been ridden"?
This Old Testament prophet famously predicted the King would come "lowly and riding on a donkey."
Who is Zechariah?
Jesus sent this many disciples ahead of the group to secure the donkey and the colt.
What is 2?
When Jesus sent the two disciples to get the donkey, he told them they would find it "tied" at a specific place—this type of location.
What is a doorway (or "at the door outside in the street")?
When the crowd shouted "Hosanna," they were also calling Jesus by this royal title, linking him to a famous Old Testament King.
What is the Son of David?
While most Gospels mention one animal, this Gospel is the only one to mention two—a donkey and her colt.
What is the Gospel of Matthew?
Scholars often link the timing of the entry to this prophet’s "seventy sevens" calculation.
Who is Daniel?
When the people in the city asked "Who is this?", the crowds answered that He was the prophet from this town.
What is Nazareth?
While the crowds were shouting "Hosanna," the Gospel of Luke says Jesus looked at the city and did this, because he knew its peace wouldn't last.
What is wept (or cried)?
Of the four Gospels, this is the only one that specifically names the branches as "Palm" branches.
What is the Gospel of John?
Jesus told the disciples they would find the animal tied up in this specific village.
What is Bethphage?
The meaning of the Hebrew word "Hosanna"?
What is "Save us, please."
According to the Gospel of John, this friend of Jesus was the reason many people in the crowd came out to see Him.
Who is Lazarus?
This is the specific place east of Jerusalem where the procession began.
What is the Mount of Olives?