What is Palm Sunday?

Answer 1

Palm Sunday celebrates when Jesus Christ rode into Jerusalem on a colt of an ass and the people welcomed him waving palms, praising God. This was the week before his arrest, crucifixion, and resurrection. Christians believe this entry had been prophesied in Zechariah 9:9. Palm Sunday is the week before Easter Sunday. It is when Jesus came to Jerusalem to spread the good news of God.

Answer 2

At the established time Jesus chose to go up to Jerusalem to suffer his passion and death, and to rise from the dead. As the Messiah King who shows forth the coming of the Kingdom, he entered into his city mounted on a donkey. He was acclaimed by the little children whose shout of joyful praise is taken up in the Sanctus of the Eucharistic liturgy: “Blessed is He Who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna (save us!)” (Matthew 21:9). The liturgy of the Church opens Holy Week by celebrating this entry into Jerusalem.

Answer 3

A:Palm Sunday is when the gospels describe Jesus entering Jerusalem triumphantly on a donkey, while the enthusiastic crowd cries "Hosanna" and spreads branches in his path. John Shelby Spong (Jesus for the NonReligious) explains the development of the story, beginning with the earliest description in Mark's Gospel and finally John's Gospel:

The Jewish eight day celebration of the harvest, known as Sukkoth, and also called the Festival of the Tabernacles or Booths, was probably the most popular holiday among the Jews in the first century. In the observance of Sukkoth, worshippers processed through Jerusalem and in the Temple, waving a bunch of leafy branches made of willow, myrtle and palm. As they waved these branches in that procession, the worshippers recited words from Psalm 118, the psalm normally used at Sukkoth. Among these words were "Save us, we beseech you, O Lord." Save us in Hebrew is hosianna or 'hosanna'. This is typically followed by "Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord. (Psalm 118:25-6)."

Although the Passover is too early for leafy branches (except palms), Mark 11:8-9 (NAB) says when Jesus entered Jerusalem, "Many people spread their cloaks on the road, and others spread leafy branches that they had cut from the fields. Those preceding him as well as those following kept crying out: 'Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!'." The Gospels of Matthew and Luke more or less follow Mark, but John's Gospel corrects this to say 'palm branches', creating our modern tradition of Palm Sunday.

Answer 4

Palm Sunday means the victorious entry of Jesus on a donkey , and the people waving palms and putting their coats on the floor.

Answer 5

The coming of Jesus Christ into Jerusalem on a small donkey is celebrated on Palm Sunday.