What Is Palm Sunday? 5 Facts to Know About the Start of Holy Week

By Anugrah Kumar, Christian Post Contributor
Sunday, March 25, 2018

4. Palm branches had a symbolic meaning

Christian Maronite children hold palm fronds during a Palm Sunday procession in the coastal city of Tripoli, northern Lebanon March 20, 2016. | (Photo: Reuters/Omar Ibrahim)

John 12:13 reads, "They took palm branches and went out to meet him, shouting, 'Hosanna!' 'Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!' 'Blessed is the king of Israel!'"

People in the ancient world laid out a path of branches to welcome a king.

Revelation 7:9 also mentions palm branches: "After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands."

The palm branch also represented the victory of martyrs, or the victory of the spirit over the flesh.

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