Over the next few days we will be journeying through the events of Holy Week ... imagining that current restrictions applied ...

"Sure you can borrow the donkey", said the man, "it can't do it's work at the moment". Despite the restrictions on gathering, Jesus still said he had "essential work" to do in Jerusalem during the festival time and was determined to go.

It was eerie going into the city without the usual crowds on the road, but people saw this strange band of a man on a donkey followed by  a dozen or more others at 2m intervals (did they count as a household?). People appeared at their windows and on their flat roofs to see. Then a cry went up and passed form house to house "it's him! It's the Nazarene!".  People reached out and pulled palm leaves and branches from the trees by their houses and threw them in to the road in front of him.

Someone called out "Hosanna to the Son of David!" and others joined in.

An official tried to get them to stop but Jesus told him ‘I tell you, if these were silent, the stones would shout out.’

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