"The Bible doesn't tell us about Pilate parading in the main gate of Jerusalem, or what the crowd shouted, but you can bet it wasn't, 'Blessed is the coming of the Kingdom of our ancestor David.' That would be treason. And treason was punishable by? You guessed it, by execution on a cross."
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