Bible Question: At Feast or Passover or Tabernacles? The word HOSANNA was mentioned 5 times in the New Testament, at Jesus Thriumphant entry to Jerusalem. But this occasion was the Feast of Passover, while Hosannas according to Bible Interpreters are being recited at the Feast of Tabernacles? (Psalm 118:25-26) |
Bible Answer: "Hosanna" is a transliteration of the Hebrew and the Aramaic, meaning "save now, we pray." The spontaneity of the crowd and the palm branches (a symbol of the nation) suggest liberation. They quote from Ps. 118:25, a psalm of thanksgiving for deliverance from an enemy. But Jesus repudiates their military and political aspirations by sitting on a donkey, symbolic of humility and peace, rather than mounting a horse, a symbol of conquest. The crowd's idea of the Messiah's purpose was far different from His own. He came to liberate from sin's oppression and not from that of Rome. This occured on the Sunday before Christ's crucifixion and before Passover. |
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