Luke 19:36 Meaning and Explanation

What the disciples did with the colt the crowd now does with the highway, spreading their clothes in the way as it descends toward the city. It is the ancient gesture of welcome and submission to a newly proclaimed king.

To lay a garment in the road is to put something of yourself under his feet. Worship that costs nothing is hardly worship; these pilgrims give the coat off their backs to honor him. For a few hundred yards the road to Jerusalem is paved with surrendered things.