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In the procession to Jerusalem, Mark 11:8 says that people spread leafy branches in the way, although just prior to Passover is too early in spring for 'leafy' branches, except palms which do not really have branches. Recognising this. the King James Version avoids use of the word 'leafy', but others, such as the NAB translate this passage literally:
(KJV) And many spread their garments in the way; and others cut down branches off the trees and strawed them in the way.
(NAB) Many people spread their cloaks on the road, and others spread leafy branches that they had cut from the fields.
Bishop Spong explains Mark's error by saying that the author confused the Jewish celebration of Passover and the harvest celebration known as Sukkoth (also called the Festival of the Tabernacles or Booths), which 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 in their right hands something called a lulab, which was 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, "Save us (hosianna or hosanna), we beseech you, O Lord ... Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord." Thus we have in Mark 11:9, "And they that went before, and they that followed, cried, saying, "Hosanna; Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the Lord." Mark was trying to incorporate the flavour of the Passover season, but inadvertently included the Sukkoth traditions, transferred from autumn to the Passover season and adapted to the Christian story.
Matthew and Luke follow Mark but avoid the word 'leafy'. John corrects the error, saying "palm branches".
So, if the original gospel is most likely to be correct, then the leafy branches would somehow seem to be of willow, myrtle and palm. If John's correction is closer to what may have happened, then palm fronds.
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