Show Don't Tell: John 12:12-19

Instead of saying "Jesus entered Jerusalem on a donkey," hear the palm branches wave. The next day the great crowd that has come for the festival hears that Jesus is on his way to Jerusalem. They take palm branches and go out to meet him, shouting: "Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Blessed is the king of Israel!" Jesus finds a young donkey and sits on it, as it is written: "Do not be afraid, Daughter Zion; see, your king is coming, seated on a donkey's colt." At first his disciples do not understand all this. Only after Jesus is glorified do they realize that these things had been written about him and that these things had been done to him. Now the crowd that has been with him when he calls Lazarus from the tomb and raises him from the dead continues to spread the word. Many people go out to meet him because they hear he has performed this sign. So the Pharisees say to one another: "See, this is getting us nowhere. Look how the whole world has gone after him!"