…It's twofold. First, the crowd prepared the way for royalty. It's an allusion to an ancient pattern of receiving kings that comes most likely from2 Kings 9, verse 13, where for a Jewish king, they cut down palm fronds and laid down their coats as he rode a donkey. It's an element, a simple element that points to…
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