and taking palm-branches they went out to meet him, shouting, "Hosanna! Blessed be he who comes in the Lord's name, the king of Israel!"

After that I looked, and there was a great host whom no one could count, from every nation and tribe and people and tongue, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clad in white robes, with palm-branches in their hands;

If anyone does not remain in me he is thrown aside like a branch and he withers up; then the branches are gathered and thrown into the fire to be burned.

and the greater part of the crowd spread their clothes on the road, while others cut branches from the trees and strewed them on the road.

It is like a grain of mustard-seed which a man took and put into his orchard, where it grew up and became a tree, and the wild birds roosted in its branches."

Let the fig tree teach you a parable. As soon as its branches turn soft and put out leaves, you know summer is at hand;

I am the vine, you are the branches. He who remains in me, as I in him, bears rich fruit (because apart from me you can do nothing).

but once sown it springs up to be larger than any plant, throwing out such big branches that the wild birds can roost under its shadow."

Let the fig tree teach you a parable. As soon as its branches turn soft and put out leaves, you know summer is at hand;

It is less than any seed on earth, but when it grows up it is larger than any plant, it becomes a tree, so large that the wild birds come and roost in its branches."

If the first handful of dough is consecrated, so is the rest of the lump; if the root is consecrated, so are the branches.

Supposing some of the branches have been broken off, while you have been grafted in like a shoot of wild olive to share the rich growth of the olive-stem,

do not pride yourself at the expense of these branches. Remember, in your pride, the stem supports you, not you the stem.

You will say, "But branches were broken off to let me be grafted in!"

For if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either.

For if you have been cut from an olive which is naturally wild, and grafted, contrary to nature, upon a garden olive, how much more will the natural branches be grafted into their proper olive?