"The Entry of the Lord into Jerusalem"

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The Entrance of the Lord into Jerusalem is a Christian holiday celebrated on the Sunday ("week") preceding Easter, that is, on the sixth Sunday of Lent.
It is dedicated to the solemn entry into Jerusalem of Jesus Christ, described in all four Gospels. In Orthodoxy it is one of the Twelve Holidays.

Other names
The holiday has several names - Week Vai, Verb Sunday, Palm Sunday (, , )

In the liturgical books of the Russian Orthodox Church, it is also called the Week of Tsvetonosnaya, and in common parlance, Verbnoye Sunday, which is due to the fact that palm branches in Russia and other countries with a cold climate were replaced by verb (cf., , ). The first mention of the use of the willow in worship is found in the Chosen Book of Svyatoslav in 1073.

Celebration event

Description in the Gospel of Matthew
The Gospel of Matthew () narrates that the apostles, at the direction of Jesus, take a donkey and a donkey to Bethany (according to Jesus, the masters do not hinder them).

Jesus rides a donkey into Jerusalem, where he is met by the people, putting clothes and palm branches on the road with exclamations: . In this event Matthew sees the fulfillment of Zechariah's prophecy: . Unlike other evangelists, Matthew misunderstood the synonymous parallelism of this verse, believing that the Messiah sits on two animals at once.

In the Temple of Jerusalem, Jesus overturns the tables of the money-changers and sellers of cattle, saying, What causes the discontent of the servants, yet they dare not take Him for fear of the people.

Then the blind and the lame come to Jesus, and He heals them.

Jesus leaves Jerusalem and spends the night in Bethany.

Description by Other Evangelicals
The entrance of Jesus Christ to Jerusalem is described by all four evangelists, and is described by Mark (in chapter 11 of his Gospel), Luke (in chapter 19), and John (in chapter 12).

Mark and Luke’s description of events is very similar in many ways to the description given by the evangelist Matthew, although differing in individual details. The evangelists Mark and Luke report that Jesus, approaching Jerusalem and being near the Mount of Olives, near Bethphagia and Bethany, sends two of his disciples after a young donkey, whom they find, untie and bring to Him. When they were taught by Jesus, they answered, “Why do you untie?” that it is necessary for the Lord.

Many other details of the description also coincide with all three authors of the Synoptic Gospels.

Meaning.
The holiday marks the recognition of Jesus as the Messiah (Christ). According to S. N. Bulgakov, the entrance of the Lord to Jerusalem is also a symbol of the future reign of Jesus Christ in Heavenly Jerusalem. In addition, according to Ambrose of Milan, he has a connection with the upcoming Passion of Christ, since Jesus entered Jerusalem on the day of the election of the lamb, who, according to Jewish tradition, should then be stabbed to death for the feast of Passover.

At the time, Judea was under Roman occupation, and the Jews expected a national leader (the “king of the Jews”) to free Judea