It was a common custom in many lands in the ancient times to cover, in some way, the path of someone thought worthy of the highest honour. It was recorded that people gave Jesus this form of honour. In the synoptics they are only reported as laying their garments and cut rushes on the street, whereas John more specifically mentions PALM FRONDS. The palm branch was a symbol of triumph and of victory, in Jewish tradition, and is treated in other parts of the bible as such (e.g. Leviticus 23:40 and Revelation 7:9). Because of this, the scene of the crowd greeting Jesus by waving palms and carpeting his path with them has given the Christian festival its name. It also shows the freedom wanted by the Jews, and their desperation to have political freedom.
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