{"id":9286,"date":"2023-04-01T02:59:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-01T02:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9286"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:33:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:33:11","slug":"hosanna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9286","title":{"rendered":"HOSANNA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When Jesus rides into Jerusalem on &#8220;Palm Sunday&#8221;, the crowds shouted &#8220;Hosanna!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Hebrew, <i>hosanna <\/i>means &#8220;Save, I pray!&#8221; or &#8220;Save now!&#8221; and it shares a root with the name of Jesus, &#8220;The Lord saves&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For centuries the Jewish people had anticipated the coming of God&#8217;s Messiah, who would bring salvation.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They recognized Jesus as the one bringing salvation.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They recognized their need for salvation.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The only thing they <i>didn&#8217;t <\/i>get was what they needed to be saved <i>from<\/i>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How about us? Do we have a mental and spiritual grip on exactly what we need to be saved from?<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Really?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Jesus rides into Jerusalem on &#8220;Palm Sunday&#8221;, the crowds shouted &#8220;Hosanna!&#8221; In Hebrew, hosanna means &#8220;Save, I pray!&#8221; or &#8220;Save now!&#8221; and it shares a root with the name of Jesus, &#8220;The Lord saves&#8221;.\u00a0 For centuries the Jewish people had anticipated the coming of God&#8217;s Messiah, who would bring salvation.\u00a0 They recognized Jesus as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9287,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9286\/revisions\/9287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}