Matthew 21:15

But when the chief priests and the teachers of the law saw the wonderful things he did and the children shouting in the temple courts, “Hosanna to the Son of David,” they were indignant. 
 

From Background Notes [BN] for March 31^st /April 1^st written by Pastor Bob Brown:

"Hosanna" is a perfectly good Aramaic/Hebrew word, and had you lived in Jesus' day, you would have heard it used at more than one Jewish festival. The actual form is hôšî‘â-na’, and literally, it means "Save! Please!" The root behind the name Jesus (Yeshua) is the same as the root for Hosanna…

The nation of Israel stood in need of salvation ― from their national sins and from their enemies all around them. The exile was everywhere evident, and it was on the occasion of the great festivals that they gave voice to these hopes and expectations. Yahweh, their Creator and covenant God, would one day come and save them. Passover ― and the week which surrounded it ― was just such a festival. During it, Israel recalled how God had rescued His people from

Egyptian slavery, bringing them through the sea and on their way to Canaan land. Each year, at the time of the festival, the Roman procurator would allow the High Priest to wear his holy vestments and perform the sacred rites in the Temple. For a moment, ever so briefly, Israel lived once more the life of liberation, the death of its Pascal Lamb as a firm reminder of God's redemption.

The real question, however, was "Would God do this again, now, and in our time?" That's what all the talk about Messiah ultimately meant: God's anointed one, come to save His people. This was, of course, at the very center of the vocation of Jesus of Nazareth. For some time now, he had preached and acted in ways that reminded the people of how God Himself had spoken and acted. All of that was now coming to a crucial climax when the powers of evil and the purposes of God would clash in the great battle waged on the cross. "Behold, the Lamb of God," John the Baptizer had witnessed at the beginning of Jesus' ministry (John 1:29). But Passover had come once more, and this time the lamb would take a human form. In what ways did Jesus make this announcement to his people? In what sense was he their king?  [BN, 3]

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