Core Truth: While Christ’s entrance into Jerusalem on that first Palm Sunday was met with great joy by only a few genuine worshipers who saw Him for who He really was – their long promised Messiah – a much larger crowd of religious leaders who were also there saw Him as a very serious threat to their own positions of power, and soon made sure that He was nailed to a cross in hopes of settling that issue once and for all.
Scripture: Luke 19:29-40
- He sent off two of His disciples, telling them, “Go into the village just ahead of you, and there you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever yet ridden. … So the messengers went off and found things just as He had told them. … So they brought it to Jesus and, throwing their cloaks upon it, mounted Jesus on its back. Then as He rode along, people spread out their coats on the roadway. And as He approached the city, where the road slopes down from the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of His disciples shouted praises to God for all the marvelous things that they had seen Him do. “Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord!” they cried. “There is peace in Heaven and glory on high!” There were some Pharisees in the crowd who said to Jesus, “Master, restrain Your disciples!” To which He replied, “I tell you that if they keep quiet, the very rocks or stones in the road would burst out cheering!”