Yes, today is traditionally what is called Palm Sunday which is the Sunday before Easter. I've been doing my Easter reading and thought that today was the perfect time to begin my Easter week commentary. Please understand that I am writing this as I see it and interpret and your opinions and interpretations might differ. I would like to think that my writings would prompt your heart and mind to search the scriptures (or even just read the scriptures). I'm sure I have said before that I have only watched The Passion Of The Christ one time and it took me a long time before I even watched that time. My heart hurts when I think of the horrors that Jesus took on himself in my stead and seeing that acted out (even though it was acting) was just too much.
I think that the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem is recorded in all four of the gospels about the same way. This event had already been prophesied years and years and years before in Zechariah 9:9. That scripture passage says:
"Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass." (Zechariah 9:9, KJV)
Jesus told his disciples that day to go to the village near and find a donkey and colt tied. He told them if anyone questioned them, to reply, "The Lord hath need of them." The animals were brought and Jesus sat upon the donkey and rode into Jerusalem.
Folks followed and cried, "Hosanna; blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord." Now I will admit here that I never had looked up what "hosanna" really meant. The Bible dictionary says it means "save, now, we beseech thee".
As Jesus rode, others spread their garments before him and still others cut down branches of trees and placed before him, all the time with their "hosannas" and "hosanna in the highest".
I'm sure some believed Jesus was the Messiah, others might have thought he was there to save them politically. And still others just might have been like us today--just wanted to see a parade. There were possibly those there who had been healed of afflictions, some that might have been or had a family member raised from the dead, some who had seen Jesus do these miracles, and then some might have just wondered "who IS this guy?"
What they all saw was a King. Not a King on a high stepping royal horse as he was dressed in royal attire but a gentle, kind man riding slowly on the lowliest of animals...born in the lowliest of places and riding on the lowly donkey.
After Jesus arrived in Jerusalem, he found moneychangers in the temple and angrily got them out. He had serious questions from his disciples and answered them back. He carried on with his life as he prepared for the sacrifice that He would be for us.
I wonder how I would have felt if I had been in that crowd.
Consider....
I think that the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem is recorded in all four of the gospels about the same way. This event had already been prophesied years and years and years before in Zechariah 9:9. That scripture passage says:
"Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass." (Zechariah 9:9, KJV)
Jesus told his disciples that day to go to the village near and find a donkey and colt tied. He told them if anyone questioned them, to reply, "The Lord hath need of them." The animals were brought and Jesus sat upon the donkey and rode into Jerusalem.
Folks followed and cried, "Hosanna; blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord." Now I will admit here that I never had looked up what "hosanna" really meant. The Bible dictionary says it means "save, now, we beseech thee".
As Jesus rode, others spread their garments before him and still others cut down branches of trees and placed before him, all the time with their "hosannas" and "hosanna in the highest".
I'm sure some believed Jesus was the Messiah, others might have thought he was there to save them politically. And still others just might have been like us today--just wanted to see a parade. There were possibly those there who had been healed of afflictions, some that might have been or had a family member raised from the dead, some who had seen Jesus do these miracles, and then some might have just wondered "who IS this guy?"
What they all saw was a King. Not a King on a high stepping royal horse as he was dressed in royal attire but a gentle, kind man riding slowly on the lowliest of animals...born in the lowliest of places and riding on the lowly donkey.
After Jesus arrived in Jerusalem, he found moneychangers in the temple and angrily got them out. He had serious questions from his disciples and answered them back. He carried on with his life as he prepared for the sacrifice that He would be for us.
I wonder how I would have felt if I had been in that crowd.
Consider....
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