As Jesus enters Jerusalem on the colt of a donkey, he is greeted with shouts of adoration and acclamation.  With one voice expressing common agreement, here at last was the Messiah from the line of David who would save the people of Israel; but, as it became obvious that his aims were not temporal and immediate, and that he would not rouse a rebellion against Rome, support withered and the plotters succeeded in sending Jesus to his death.  Little did any realise that this was the plan and eternal salvation the goal.  Matthew, an eye witness, records those cries:

‘Hosanna to the Son of David!’

 ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!’

 ‘Hosanna in the highest heaven!’  (Matthew 21:9)

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