3. And if anyone will have said anything to you, say that the Lord has need of them. And he will promptly dismiss them."
4. Now all this was done in order to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet, saying,
5. "Tell the daughter of Zion: Behold, your king comes to you meekly, sitting on a donkey and on a colt, the son of one accustomed to the yoke."
6. Then the disciples, going out, did just as Jesus instructed them.
7. And they brought the donkey and the colt, and they laid their garments on them, and they helped him sit upon them.
8. Then a very numerous crowd spread their garments on the way. But others cut branches from the trees and scattered them on the way.
9. And the crowds that preceded him, and those that followed, cried out, saying: "Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest!"