Mark 11:8 Meaning and Explanation
“And many spread their garments in the way: and others cut down branches off the trees, and strawed them in the way.”
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Read Full Chapter →Crowds carpet the road with their garments and with leafy branches cut from the trees as Jesus rides toward the city.
What Does Mark 11:8 Mean?
What the disciples began, the multitude takes up. Spreading garments in the road was homage paid to royalty—so Israel greeted Jehu when he was proclaimed king (2 Kings 9:13). Cloaks and cut branches turn the dusty descent from Olivet into a king's highway.
Jerusalem at Passover overflowed with pilgrims, and their hopes ran high: perhaps this prophet from Galilee was the promised Son of David. Their instinct was truer than they knew. He is the King—though his coronation will be stranger and costlier than they imagine, and within the week another crowd will cry against him. Christ receives their praise knowing exactly what kind of throne awaits him, and he rides on. Such is the steadfast love that carried him to Jerusalem.
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What does Mark 11:8 mean?
Crowds carpet the road with their garments and with leafy branches cut from the trees as Jesus rides toward the city.