The procession in the streets of Jerusalem (Notes)

Saint Matthew - Chapter 21

The procession in the streets of Jerusalem. J-J Tissot

[10] Et cum intrasset Jerosolymam, commota est universa civitas, dicens : Quis est hic?
And when he was come into Jerusalem, the whole city was moved, saying: Who is this?

And when He was come into Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, Who is this? Who with so great honour, applause, congratulation, as it were the King of Israel, enters into Jerusalem, whilst the Scribes and Pharisees are looking on—yea, the Roman soldiers of Tiberius Cæsar, who would not suffer another than Cæsar to be called King of Judæa? Wherefore Christ, now bearing Himself as a king, would have come into peril of death, had not He, by the power of His Divinity, struck not only all the Jews but the Romans with amazement, and rendered them as it were thunderstruck, so that no one should dare to lay hands upon Him, nay, for even think of such a thing. So Abulensis and others.

[11] Populi autem dicebant : Hic est Jesus propheta a Nazareth Galilaeae.
And the people said: This is Jesus the prophet, from Nazareth of Galilee.

But the people said, This is Jesus, the prophet of Nazareth, of Galilee. Greek, ὁ προφήτης, i.e., that prophet, par excellence, who far surpasses and transcends all the prophets in preaching, sanctity, power, and miracles. Therefore He is Messias, the King of Israel. Of Nazareth: for although Jesus was born at Bethlehem, yet He was brought up at Nazareth. Christ by this glory of His gave occasion to His death; for the Scribes, being stirred up by it to envy and hatred of Him, after four days crucified Him. In truth, God—foreknowing all things—ordered all these things, in part positively, in part permissively, that from them He might elicit greater good, namely, the redemption of the world, to be accomplished by the death of Christ. The malice, therefore, of the Scribes fulfilled the counsel and decree of God concerning the death of Christ and the redemption of the world, as S. Peter teaches (Acts 2)

Totus tuus ego sum 

Et omnia mea tua sunt;

Tecum semper tutus sum:
Ad Jesum per Mariam