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MATTHEW 21:8 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Matt 21:7Matt 21:9
“And a very great multitude spread their garments in the way; others cut down branches from the trees, and strawed them in the way.”
Most of the crowd spread their cloaks on the road, and others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road. The crowd's reception — spreading cloaks and branches on the road — is the royal reception of a king. The branches from the trees echo the Feast of Tabernacles' branch-waving (Leviticus 23:40) and Psalm 118:27 (bind the festal sacrifice with branches). The entire scene is the fulfillment of the Psalm 118 royal entry that the crowd's Hosanna cry will shortly quote.

Church Fathers on Matthew 21:8

The Evangelist related above that the Lord departed from Galilee, and began to go up to Jerusalem. Being now occupied with telling what He did by the way, he proceeds in his purpose, saying, 'And when they drew nigh to Jerusalem, and were come to Bethphage.' Bethphage was a small village of the priests, situated on the declivity of Mount Olivet, one mile distant from Jerusalem. For the priests who ministered in the temple their apportioned time, when their office of…

Remigius · 9th century

Whence Bethphage is interpreted, The house of the Shoulder; for the shoulder was the priest’s portion in the Law. It follows, 'Then Jesus sent two of his disciples.'

Origen · 3rd century

He said not to His disciples, Say, Thy Lord, or Your Lord, hath need of them; that they may understand, that He is Lord alone, not of the beasts only, but of all men; for even sinners are by the law of nature His, though by their own will they are the Devil’s.

Pseudo-Chrysostom · 5th century
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