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That the Scriptures Might be Fulfilled*

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       Frontal View - The Shroud of Turin      Today is Palm Sunday, and it is also Passover. Jesus observed the Passover Feast and celebrated it with His disciples just before His arrest and crucifixion. The Gospel of John relates that Jerusalem was full of people who had come to the feast when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem. They took branches from palm trees and when to meet Him as He entered the city. The crowd cried out, "Hosanna: Blessed is the King of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord." In fulfilment of the scriptures, Jesus rode into Jerusalem on the colt of an ass. It wasn't until later that His disciples realized that the things that were done to Jesus, down to the most minute detail, had been prophesied: "...then remembered they that these things were written of him, and that they had done these things unto him." (Jn. 12:12-16). The prophet Zechariah had written long before: "Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout...