The Crowd Cheers

It was early on the 9th day of Nisan in the Jewish year 3793 – the day that we would call March 29, A.D. 33, when the crowd began to stream down the road from the Mount of Olives toward the eastern gate of Jerusalem.

The evening before had been remarkable. That evening, after sunset had cleared away the Sabbath laws, Jesus of Nazareth and his disciples …