took branches of palm-trees, and went out to meet him, and cried: Hosanna, blessed is the king of Israel that comes in the name of the Lord.

And a very great multitude spread their mantles in the road: and others cut branches from the trees, and spread them in the road.

It is like a grain of mustard, which a man took, and sowed in his garden; and it grew, and became a great tree; and the birds of the air roosted in its branches.

I am the vine, you are the branches. He that abides in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; for apart from me you can do nothing.

and when they had plaited a crown of thorn branches, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand; and kneeling before him, they derided him, saying: Hail, King of the Jews!

And the soldiers plaited a crown of thorn-branches, and put it upon his head; and they put on him a purple robe,

Then Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorn branches, and the purple robe. And Pilate said to them: Be hold the man!

yet, when it is sown, it grows up, and becomes larger than all garden-plants, and sends out great branches, so that the birds of the air can roost under its shadow.

And many spread their mantles in the road, and others cut branches from the trees, and spread them in the road.

And they clothed him in purple; and having plaited a crown of thorn branches, they put it on him,

It is, indeed, the least of all seeds; but when it is grown it is the largest of garden-plants, and be comes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and roost in its branches.

Now, if the first fruit is holy, the mass is holy also: and if the root is holy, the branches are holy also.

And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, have been grafted in among them, and partake with them of the root and fatness of the olive,

boast not against the branches; but if you boast, boast not that you bear the root, but that the root bears you.

You will say then: The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.

For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed, lest he spare not you.

For if you were cut out from an olive-tree that is wild by nature, and were grafted, against nature, into a good olive, how much more shall these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive?