And he entered into it on the three and twentieth day of the second month, in the hundred and seventy and first year, with praise and palm branches, and with harps, and with cymbals, and with viols, and with hymns, and with songs: because a great enemy was destroyed out of Israel.
⛓ Read 1 Maccabees 13 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
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A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Simon's triumphal entry into Jerusalem 'with praise and palm branches' (also 2 Macc 10:7) shows palms as the established Second-Temple sign of liberation-procession into the holy city. Availability and Coherence make this the nearest cultural template for John's palm-waving crowd; echo, not citation.
Medium confidenceSimon's entry into the Jerusalem citadel 'with praise and palm branches' provides a Second Temple template for entering the holy city with branches and acclamation, paralleling the multitude cutting and spreading branches (21:8).
Medium confidenceSimon's triumphal entry into the Jerusalem citadel "with praise and palm branches (baia)... and with hymns and songs" — Second-Temple precedent for palm branches as the gesture of victory celebration and deliverance, illuminating why the redeemed multitude (victors out of tribulation) bear palms while acclaiming salvation. Confirms the victory-procession nuance alongside the Tabernacles nuance (cf. also 2 Macc 10:7; John 12:13).
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