Save us now, we beg you, Yahweh! Yahweh, we beg you, send prosperity now. Blessed is he who comes in Yahweh’s name! We have blessed you out of Yahweh’s house.
⛓ Read Psalm 118 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.
Quotation3
A formal citation — high verbal volume, often introduced by a saying-formula.
'Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord' quotes Ps 118:25-26 verbatim (hosanna = hoshia-na, 'save now'). Maximal Volume and Recurrence (a Hallel pilgrim-psalm sung at the feasts), with John adding 'the King of Israel' to make the messianic coherence explicit.
High confidenceThe crowd's cry 'Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!' formally cites the Hallel pilgrimage acclamation, where 'Hosanna' (hoshia-na, 'save now') is Ps 118:25 and the blessing is 118:26. This is a verbatim liturgical quotation with maximal volume; the same psalm recurs as the rejected-stone text in Mark 12:10-11, strengthening recurrence.
High confidenceThe crowd's cry (21:9) quotes Psalm 118:25-26: 'Hosanna' transliterates the Hebrew 'hoshia-na' ('save now,' Ps 118:25), and 'Blessed is he who comes in the name of the LORD' is verbatim from Ps 118:26 (LXX), a Hallel pilgrimage acclamation.
High confidence