Lent: Palm Sunday
John 12:12-19 NIV
12 The next day the great crowd that had come for the festival heard that Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem. 13 They took palm branches and went out to meet him, shouting,
“Hosanna![d]”
“Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!”[e]
“Blessed is the king of Israel!”
14 Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, as it is written:
15 “Do not be afraid, Daughter Zion;
see, your king is coming,
seated on a donkey’s colt.”[f]
16 At first his disciples did not understand all this. Only after Jesus was glorified did they realize that these things had been written about him and that these things had been done to him.
17 Now the crowd that was with him when he called Lazarus from the tomb and raised him from the dead continued to spread the word. 18 Many people, because they had heard that he had performed this sign, went out to meet him. 19 So the Pharisees said to one another, “See, this is getting us nowhere. Look how the whole world has gone after him!”
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Greetings all,
A good man rides along a dusty road into the City called Peace where peace hasn’t rested for years. The grateful townsfolk rush out to meet him, just prior to fleeing the violence that’s to come. The enemies look towards the rider with growing desperation because, this time, he has a posse.
I imagined myself reading that like a movie narrator for an old western. But it’s for Palm Sunday this week. John 12:12–19 presents an entry where the enemies and the allies alike expect what Jesus isn’t intending. Gun slinging and rootin’-tootin’ messiahs never deliver on the promise. We’ll give thanks to God this Sunday that we celebrate a different messiah whose full Rescue we’ll celebrate at Easter.
Peace,
Zach