their elders:
"Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the Lord!"

The priests, shocked at their homage, were sorely displeased, and
appealed to Jesus, saying: "Hearest thou what they say? Forbid them!"

They paused for his reply.

Then Jesus answered and said unto them: "I say unto you, if they were
silent the very stones would cry out."

Encouraged by this emphatic approval, the children cried out once more,
louder than ever, the sound of their childish voices filling the
temple: "Hosanna to the Son of David!"

Then the Pharisees, who stood by the overthrown tables of the
money-changers, spoke up and said angrily to the little ones: "Silence,
you silly children!"

Jesus turned to them and said: "Have you never read 'Out of the mouths
of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise.' That which is
hidden from the proud is revealed unto babes?" And as the priests and
Pharisees muttered in indignation among themselves, he continued: "For
the Scripture must be fulfilled. The stone which the builders rejected
is become the headstone of the corner. The Kingdom of God shall be
taken from you and it shall be given to a people which shall bring
forth the fruits thereof. But that stone, whosoever shall fall upon it
shall be broken, but on whomsoever it shall fall it shall grind him to
powder. Come, my disciples, I have done what the Father has commanded
me, I have vindicated the honor of his house. The darkness remains
darkness, but in many hearts it will soon be day. Let us go into the
inner court of the temple that we may there pray unto the Father."
Thereupon Jesus, followed by his disciples, disappeared in the interior
of the temple, while the people cried aloud as with one voice: "Praise
be to the anointed one!" and the priests said angrily: "Silence,
rabble!" The Pharisees adding: "Ye shall all be overthrown with your
leader." To which the crowd responded by crying louder than ever:
"Blessed be the Kingdom of David which again appears!"

Then Nathanael, a leading man in the Sanhedrin, tall and well favored,
wearing a horned mitre, and possessing the tongue of an orator, stood
forth, and seeing Jesus had departed and that there was now no one to
withstand him in the hearing of the people, lifted up his voice and
cried: "Whosoever holds with our fathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, let
him stand by us! The curse of Moses upon all the rest!"

Then a rabbi in blue velvet apparel, sprang forward and declar