Hosannas

"Hosannas" and to realize how the cries of acclamation will yield to the garden of suffering, to be there and watch as Jesus is sentenced by Pilate to Calvary, to see him rejected, mocked, spat upon, beaten and forced to carry a heavy cross, to hear the echo of the hammer, to feel the agony of the torn flesh and strained muscles, to know Mary's anguish as he hung three hours before he died.

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The crowds of followers that cheered Jesus with "Hosannas" just a week before as he entered Jerusalem riding on a donkey evaporated as soon as he was arrested.

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Hosannas didn't ring out, but neither were there cries of "Heathen!" and "Apostate!"

The Radical New Vision of Golf John Paul Newport 2011

Result: Hosannas when you play the purple dinosaur from time to time.

Good-Enough Mother René Syler with Karen Moline 2007

Result: Hosannas when you play the purple dinosaur from time to time.

Good-Enough Mother René Syler with Karen Moline 2007

But I have often been surprized with Claps and Plauditts, and Hosannas, when I have spoke but indifferently, and as often met with Inattention and Neglect when I have thought I spoke very well.

John Adams diary 18, 17 June - 6 July 1771 1961

The very stones Hosannas cry; the forests clap their hands,

The Life of Duty, v. 2 A year's plain sermons on the Gospels or Epistles H. J. Wilmot-Buxton

You have heard the Hosannas of the befooled populace.

King of the Jews A story of Christ's last days on Earth William T. Stead

Matthew (21: 15) says that children took part in the Triumphal Entry; and Jesus, clear as he was how little the Hosannas of the grown people meant, seems to have enjoyed the children's part in the strange scene.

The Jesus of History T. R. Glover

Hosannas of the countless multitude; -- this was the Palm Sunday of

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