Tag: Triumphant entry of Jesus
Jesus declares War: As King, To an undefeated Enemy, Precisely on Palm Sunday
The Books of Maccabees, found in the Apocrypha, vividly recounts the warfare waged by the Maccabees (Maccabeus) family against the Greek Seleucids. They were trying to impose Greek pagan religion upon the Jews of Jerusalem in 168 BCE. Most of the historical information about this war comes from the First Book of Maccabees (1 Maccabees). It…