They threw palm branches and their coats on the road to soften the path for their Hero, coming to deliver them. When a few days later, He hung on a cross, beaten mercilessly, they thought, “This is not how it was supposed to happen.”
But it was how it was supposed to happen, though they didn’t understand. We didn’t need to be delivered from the Romans—we needed to be delivered from ourselves and from our real enemy.
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