“See, Your King Is Coming”
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“See, Your King Is Coming”

John 12:12–19  (ID: 2378)

Throughout Israel’s history, God’s people looked for a promised King—one who would bring in an eternal kingdom and reign with justice. On Palm Sunday, the Jerusalem crowds expected triumph, but King Jesus came as a Suffering Servant, not a conqueror. Alistair Begg observes that the Lord Jesus is a different kind of king ruling over a different kind of kingdom—a kingdom that exists in our hearts.

Series Containing This Sermon

Jesus 101

Selected Scriptures Series ID: 24401


The Triumphal Entry

12The next day the large crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem. 13So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, crying out, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel!” 14And Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, just as it is written,

15“Fear not, daughter of Zion;

behold, your king is coming,

sitting on a donkey's colt!”

16His disciples did not understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written about him and had been done to him. 17The 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 was that they heard he had done this sign. 19So the Pharisees said to one another, “You see that you are gaining nothing. Look, the world has gone after him.”

Copyright © 2024, Alistair Begg. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Scripture taken from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. Copyright ©2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Text provided by the Crossway Bibles Web Service.

Alistair Begg
Alistair Begg is Senior Pastor at Parkside Church in Cleveland, Ohio, and the Bible teacher on Truth For Life, which is heard on the radio and online around the world.