Holy Week is the week before Easter, commemorating events in the last days of Jesus' life on Earth. It begins on Palm Sunday and ends on Easter Monday.
Palm Sunday is the sixth and last Sunday of Lent and the beginning of Holy Week.
The Sunday before Easter is known as Palm Sunday because the crowds waved palm branches as they followed Jesus' procession into Jerusalem.
Matthew 21:7-9
records the fulfillment of that prophecy: "They brought the donkey and
the colt, laid their clothes on them, and set Him on them. And a very
great multitude spread their clothes on the road; others cut down
branches from the trees and spread them on the road. Then the multitudes
who went before and those who followed cried out, saying: ‘Hosanna to
the Son of David! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD!’
Hosanna in the highest!’” This event took place on the Sunday before
Jesus' crucifixion.
The same crowds that were crying out "Hosanna" were crying out "crucify Him" five days later (Matthew 27:22-23).
- Palm Sunday the day Jesus arrived in Jerusalem.
- Holy Thursday (Maundy Thursday), Last Supper and the betrayal by Judas.
- Good Friday (Holy Friday), the arrest, trial, crucifixion, death and burial of Jesus Christ.
- Holy Saturday, the Sabbath on which Jesus rested in the grave.
Palm Sunday is the sixth and last Sunday of Lent and the beginning of Holy Week. The Sunday before Easter is known as Palm Sunday because the crowds waved palm branches as they followed Jesus' procession into Jerusalem.
Palm Sunday is the day we remember the "triumphal entry" of Jesus into Jerusalem, exactly one week before His resurrection (Matthew 21:1-11).
Some 450-500 years earlier, the Prophet Zechariah had prophesied,
"Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem!
Behold, your King is coming to you; He is just and having salvation,
Lowly and riding on a donkey, A colt, the foal of a donkey” (Zechariah 9:9).
Matthew 21:7-9
records the fulfillment of that prophecy: "They brought the donkey and
the colt, laid their clothes on them, and set Him on them. And a very
great multitude spread their clothes on the road; others cut down
branches from the trees and spread them on the road. Then the multitudes
who went before and those who followed cried out, saying: ‘Hosanna to
the Son of David! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD!’
Hosanna in the highest!’” This event took place on the Sunday before
Jesus' crucifixion.
'Hosanna' means 'Save us now'
In remembrance of this event, we celebrate Palm Sunday. It is referred
to as Palm Sunday because of the palm branches that were laid on the
road as Jesus rode the donkey into Jerusalem. Palm Sunday was the
fulfillment of the Prophet Daniel's "seventy sevens" prophecy: " Know
therefore and understand, That from the going forth of the command To
restore and build Jerusalem Until Messiah the Prince, There shall be
seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; The street shall be built again, and
the wall, Even in troublesome times" (Daniel 9:25).
The same crowds that were crying out "Hosanna" were crying out "crucify Him" five days later (Matthew 27:22-23).
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