3 And if anyone says anything to you, you shall say, ‘The Lord has need of them,’ and immediately he will send them.”

4 ¹All this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying: ‡

8 And a very great multitude spread their clothes on the road; ^aothers cut down branches from the trees and spread them on the road.  ‡

9 Then the multitudes who went before and those who followed cried out, saying:
“Hosanna to the Son of David!
^a‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’
Hosanna in the highest!”  ‡