Triumphal Entry

Scripture Reading:

Mark 11:1–11 NASB95

As they approached Jerusalem, at Bethphage and Bethany, near the Mount of Olives, He sent two of His disciples, and said to them, “Go into the village opposite you, and immediately as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, on which no one yet has ever sat; untie it and bring it here. “If anyone says to you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ you say, ‘The Lord has need of it’; and immediately he will send it back here.” They went away and found a colt tied at the door, outside in the street; and they untied it. Some of the bystanders were saying to them, “What are you doing, untying the colt?” They spoke to them just as Jesus had told them, and they gave them permission. They brought the colt to Jesus and put their coats on it; and He sat on it. And many spread their coats in the road, and others spread leafy branches which they had cut from the fields. Those who went in front and those who followed were shouting: “Hosanna! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord; Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David; Hosanna in the highest!” Jesus entered Jerusalem and came into the temple; and after looking around at everything, He left for Bethany with the twelve, since it was already late.

I. Introduction

a. Over the course of the last few chapters in Mark we have been discussing how Jesus has been teaching His disciples that first they were going to Jerusalem and He will be put to death. They didn’t understand what this meant.

b. secondly He has been teaching them very important principles of what the gospel and the kingdom of God was like. Again they didn’t understand what this meant.

c. Today we are going to dive off into the Triumphal Entry. I want us to this in the context that the disciples are not understanding any of what He is saying and doing. Therefore the disciples did not understand what it meant that Jesus road in on the colt, the entering the Eastern Gate of Jerusalem and the praise and worship that people were saying.

II. The Colt

a. Zechariah 9:9

Zechariah 9:9 NASB95

Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; He is just and endowed with salvation, Humble, and mounted on a donkey, Even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

b. Philippians 2:5-9

Philippians 2:5–9 NASB95

Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men. Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. For this reason also, God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name,

III. Eastern Gate

Picture:

a. Ezekiel 10:18-19

Ezekiel 10:18–19 NASB95

Then the glory of the Lord departed from the threshold of the temple and stood over the cherubim. When the cherubim departed, they lifted their wings and rose up from the earth in my sight with the wheels beside them; and they stood still at the entrance of the east gate of the Lord’s house, and the glory of the God of Israel hovered over them.

b. Ezekiel 42:1-2

Ezekiel 42:1–2 NASB95

Then he brought me out into the outer court, the way toward the north; and he brought me to the chamber which was opposite the separate area and opposite the building toward the north. Along the length, which was a hundred cubits, was the north door; the width was fifty cubits.

IV. Hosanna

a. Psalm 118:26

Psalm 118:26 NASB95

Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord; We have blessed you from the house of the Lord.

b. Luke 19:39-40

Luke 19:39–40 NASB95

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!”

c. Habakkuk 2:11

Habakkuk 2:11 NASB95

“Surely the stone will cry out from the wall, And the rafter will answer it from the framework.

V. Summary

a. These are the scriptures that Jesus fulfilled in the triumphal entry and what we need to take from this is how the disciples were actually helping to make it come to pass and they didn’t even know.

b. what surprises me is the absolute blindness of the pharisees when they told Jesus to rebuke the people. They should have known all of these scriptures, but do to their unbelief they themselves didn’t even make the connections. The pharisees had studied the scriptures all their life and still didn’t get it.