“Many people spread their cloaks on the road, and others spread leafy branches that they had cut in the fields.” Mark 11:8

In the closing years of my parochial ministry, I gave up using notes for my sermons, instead I would use acronyms or initial letters as an aide memoire for the points I wanted to make, so it was that Saint Mark’s account of the entry into Jerusalem was discussed in terms of four “Bs.” The four “Bs” seem apt on this Palm Sunday.

Chapter 11 Verse …