He humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even death on a cross. Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name which is above every name.

Breathes there a man with soul so dead who has not been deeply stirred by the scene recorded in the gospels of that first Palm Sunday? That scene has stirred the imagination of sensitive people in every generation. Poets have tried to capture its rapture in their rhymed couplets. Painters have delighted in the contrasts of that day and have often depicted two processions - one of the proud Roman governor carried on the shoulders of his slaves and looking down with contempt upon the Nazarene riding on the lowly beast of burden - king for a day as the Roman mistakenly imagined. To quicken the pulse musicians have composed thei…