Palm Sunday traditionally celebrates the Passover donkey ride of Jesus Christ into Jerusalem. The Holy Day is so named, because the Messiah was greeted by followers with palms, signaling a triumph of the soul. There is no account from the Roman or Pharisee scribes of this event, although the literacy rate of Roman Palestine hs been estimated at 3%. Few people at that time never how to read or write. Stories were passed from people by word of mouth. The Gospel according to Mark written in Koine Greek originated in Roman Syria in 60 CE, although believers claimed that the New Testament came from a hypot The celebration of Palm Sunday first occured in the 4th Century CE at the Church of Jerusalem. The donkey symbolized peace as opposed to war by a horse and covering the path of someone was considered to the hgihest honor in the Eastern world.
It was a good day for the Messiah, who mythiclly wept upon seeing Jerusalem, knowing his ultimate fat.
This Palm Sunday was a very rainy day.
I went nowhere near a church.
I sat with the venerable Professor Bertell Ollman.
We ate lunch. Dessert was ice cream. Afterwards we watched a nature show about the Evolution of earth. There was no mention on God in the time of the dinosaurs. The Great Reptiles perished in the Great Extinction. Jesus understood that fate awaits us all sitting on a donkey overlooking Jerusalmen. Persons unknown passed that incident through a thousand mouths until reaching St. Mark, who wrote the earliest Gospel.
The Word of God.
Hearsay.
Standing as the truth through the millenia.
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