The Triumphal Entry

Palm Sunday

Today we will look at the Triumphal Entry. In John 11:55-56, some were asking “Will Jesus come to the feast?” As He enters Jerusalem it appears that question will be answered. Jesus sends His disciples into town to find a donkey, He is praised by the people as He enters Jerusalem, has another encounter with the Pharisees. Jesus wept over the city of Jerusalem and He enters the temple late in the day before He and the disciples leave for Bethany for the night.  

Scripture Study today:

Matthew 21: 1-11

Mark 11: 1-11

Luke 19: 28-44

John 11-12

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Transcript

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Well as we begin our our study of Passion Week and start here today, we'll start uh start today as we get to it on Palm Sunday and be the Sunday before Easter Sunday, before Resurrection Sunday. Uh as we look at to today in biblical times, we're gonna look just briefly as we start in John and then bounce to Matthew and then on to Luke. Um as we'll do each day before I get started, I'll give you the scriptures uh as far as just in each gospel of where you can look and and study. And we won't read all of it each day, as I've said. We'll take uh take pieces as we as we put the story together, but certainly encourage everyone to go back and read through each each of the four gospels as we go through each day this week. So today for day one for Palm Sunday, but we're gonna look just a minute uh briefly before John 11 and John 12 as we get into to the actual triumphal entry will be in Matthew 21 verses 1 through 11. So Matthew 21, 1 through 11, Mark chapter 11, verses 1 through 11, Luke chapter 19, verses 28 through 44, um, and then as I think I said in the intro, John chapter 12, uh, and a bit of chapter 11 uh set in the setting the scene, but uh John uh as as many probably know is is written in just a bit different fashion uh than the other three synoptic gospels, so uh we'll have a little broader text uh that I give you each day versus specifically verse by verse. So uh as we start today and just to set the scene, we're gonna start in John 11. And John 11, verse 55, it says, Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the Passover to purify themselves. So they were seeking for Jesus and were saying to one another as they stood in the temple, What do you think? That he will not come to the feast at all? And in verse fifty-seven says, Now the chief priest and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where he was, he was to report it, so that they might seize him. So as the Jewish people are headed to Jerusalem and gathering together, and and and apparently it's becoming somewhat uh public knowledge that the Pharisees and Sadducees and the religious leaders are are looking for Christ, looking for Jesus, looking for a way to seize him. Uh so as those people are gathering, they're looking for Christ, probably for a couple of reasons, looking to find him to see him uh as Messiah, heard about his wonders and heard about the works that he had been doing, the healings that he'd been doing, um, and then also, you know, as people are gathering, wondering if Jesus is going to arrive, uh, with knowing that the that the religious leaders are looking at him or are looking for him. So as we know uh reading through when we get to the gospel that uh he is about to make his his entry into Jerusalem, uh which is what we're gonna look at uh right now. So in Matthew twenty one, starting in verse one, we'll read the first ten verses. It says When they had approached Jerusalem and had come to Bethpage at the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples, saying to them, Go into the village opposite you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied there, and a colt with her, untie them and bring them to me. If anyone says anything to you, you shall say the Lord has need of them, and immediately he will send them. This took place to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet, say to the daughter of Zion, Behold, your king is coming to you gentle and mounted on a donkey, even on a colt the foal of a beast of burden. The disciples went and did just as Jesus had instructed them, and brought the donkey and the colt, and laid their coats on them, or and he set on the coats. Most of the crowd spread their coats in the road, and others were cutting branches from the trees and spreading them in the road. The crowds ahead of him and those who followed were shouting, Hosanna to the Son of David. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, Hosanna in the highest. When he had entered Jerusalem, all the city was stirred, saying, Who is this? And the crowds were saying, This is the prophet Jesus from Nazareth in Galilee. Um so that's the first ten verses in Matthew, and and as as it paints a beautiful picture of Christ coming in, fulfilling another prophecy in the way he enters uh Jerusalem into this time. Uh, we're gonna flip from there uh over to Luke 19 and pick up in the exact same spot in Luke 19, verse 39. Um so as as Christ is coming in on the donkey as prophesied, and and and folks are praising him, uh they're excited. Uh things are are are going. Uh, you know, the Messiah is is arriving in Jerusalem. Uh the people are are ecstatic about it. And um in verse 39 of Luke 19 it says, Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to him, Teacher, rebuke your disciples. But Jesus answered, I tell you, if these become silent, the stones will cry out. Uh you know, him making a point to the Pharisees that I am Lord, and even the stones will cry out that if I if I demand these people to be silent. In verse forty one he says, When he approached Jerusalem, he saw this city and wept over it, saying, If you had known in this day, even you the things which make for peace, but now they have been hidden from your eyes, for the days will come upon you when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you, and surround you and hem you in on every side, and they will level you to the ground and your children within you, and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation. Um so again a clear prophecy there of AD seventy that Jesus uh uh puts out just as happened by the Romans in AD seventy uh when they took down Jerusalem. So again, as we look at that and Christ coming in just as the arrivals, all we'll look at today and weeps over the town. He's again passionate and knowing that he will be rejected as we get closer to the end of the week that that that compassion that he has. Um as as we go on through this week, the the day, the first day, day one is gonna end uh as we look in Mark 11, 11, as it says uh as he enters the temple looking at it all, it was already late, and he leaves for Bethany with the twelve and to go back out of town for that evening. Um we'll pick back up tomorrow on day two and look at uh some things that that happen uh in the temple as as Jesus stirs some things up and gets some things situated uh in his way uh as we look at day two. So that uh that completes the the study for today. Like I say, go back through if you if you can back back up to and read through all four gospels uh of this account, and as we go through this week, I know it'll be a blessing as I know it has been for me. So um God bless y'all. We love y'all, and we will see you back tomorrow for day two of Passion Week.