4. Now all this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying:
5. Tell ye the daughter of Sion: Behold thy king cometh to thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of her that is used to the yoke.
6. And the disciples going, did as Jesus commanded them.
7. And they brought the ass and the colt, and laid their garments upon them, and made him sit thereon.
8. And a very great multitude spread their garments in the way: and others cut boughs from the trees, and strewed them in the way: