The two disciples left and found the colt standing in the street, tied outside the front door. As they were untying it, some bystanders demanded, �What are you doing, untying that colt?� They said what Jesus had told them to say, and they were permitted to take it. Then they brought the colt to Jesus and threw their garments over it, and he sat on it.
Many in the crowd spread their garments on the road ahead of him, and others spread leafy branches they had cut in the fields. Jesus was in the center of the procession, and the people all around him were shouting,
�Praise God! Blessings on the one who comes in the name of the Lord! Blessings on the coming Kingdom of our ancestor David! Praise God in highest heaven!�
So Jesus came to Jerusalem and went into the Temple. After
looking around carefully at everything, he left because it
was late in the afternoon. Then he returned to Bethany with
the twelve disciples.