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April 5, 2009
When Jesus arrived in Jerusalem riding on a donkey, even His disciples did not know what it meant. Yet Jesus was doing something very purposeful, Alistair Begg explains. As the prophets foretold, He entered the city amid the celebration of the people and the consternation of the religious leaders. His entrance demonstrated that He was gentle, humble, and approachable—the embodiment of the perfect King to whom all must bow their knee in submission.
9When the large crowd of the Jews learned that Jesus4 was there, they came, not only on account of him but also to see Lazarus, owhom he had raised from the dead. 10pSo the chief priests made plans to put Lazarus to death as well, 11because qon account of him many of the Jews were going away and believing in Jesus.
12The next day rthe large crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem. 13So they took branches of spalm trees and went out to meet him, crying out, t“Hosanna! Blessed is uhe who comes in the name of the Lord, even vthe King of Israel!” 14And Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, just as it is written,
15w“Fear not, daughter of Zion;
behold, your king is coming,
sitting on a donkey's colt!”
16xHis disciples did not understand these things at first, but ywhen Jesus was glorified, then zthey remembered that these things had been written about him and had been done to him. 17aThe crowd that had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead continued to bear witness. 18The reason why the crowd went to meet him bwas that they heard he had done this sign. 19So the Pharisees said to one another, c“You see that you are gaining nothing. Look, dthe world has gone after him.”
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