What Hosanna Actually Means (Matthew 21:1–11)
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Yesterday, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets across this country. The signs they carried said: “No Kings.”
I think Matthew's crowd would have known exactly what they meant. Because the people shouting "Hosanna" on that road into Jerusalem weren't cheering for a king in the conventional sense. They were crying out against everything the kings of their world had done to them. Caesar's empire. Herod's collaboration. A whole system built to keep the desperate people desperate.
“Hosanna!” ”Save us. Now. Please." That's what you shout when you've had enough of kings.
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