Resurrection 2026 - Triumphal Entry

He’s coming...

Zechariah 9:9 ESV

Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is he, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

The Day

Luke 19:29 ESV

When he drew near to Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount that is called Olivet, he sent two of the disciples,

Luke 19:30 ESV

saying, “Go into the village in front of you, where on entering you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever yet sat. Untie it and bring it here.

Luke 19:31 ESV

If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you untying it?’ you shall say this: ‘The Lord has need of it.’ ”

Luke 19:32 ESV

So those who were sent went away and found it just as he had told them.

Luke 19:33 ESV

And as they were untying the colt, its owners said to them, “Why are you untying the colt?”

Matthew 21:4–5 ESV

This took place to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet, saying, “Say to the daughter of Zion, ‘Behold, your king is coming to you, humble, and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a beast of burden.’ ”

Luke 19:34 ESV

And they said, “The Lord has need of it.”

Luke 19:35 ESV

And they brought it to Jesus, and throwing their cloaks on the colt, they set Jesus on it.

Luke 19:36 ESV

And as he rode along, they spread their cloaks on the road.

Matthew 21:8 ESV

Most of the crowd spread their cloaks on the road, and others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road.

John 12:13 ESV

So 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!”

Mark 11:8 ESV

And many spread their cloaks on the road, and others spread leafy branches that they had cut from the fields.

Luke 19:37 ESV

As he was drawing near—already on the way down the Mount of Olives—the whole multitude of his disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen,

Luke 19:38 ESV

saying, “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!”

Matthew 21:9 ESV

And the crowds that went before him and that followed him were shouting, “Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!”

Mark 11:10 ESV

Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David! Hosanna in the highest!”

The disciples still don’t understand

John 12:16 ESV

His 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.

John 12:17 ESV

The crowd that had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead continued to bear witness.

John 12:18 ESV

The reason why the crowd went to meet him was that they heard he had done this sign.

Luke 19:39 ESV

And some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples.”

John 12:19 ESV

So the Pharisees said to one another, “You see that you are gaining nothing. Look, the world has gone after him.”

Luke 19:40 ESV

He answered, “I tell you, if these were silent, the very stones would cry out.”

Luke 19:41 ESV

And when he drew near and saw the city, he wept over it,

Luke 19:42 ESV

saying, “Would that you, even you, had known on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.

Luke 19:43 ESV

For the days will come upon you, when your enemies will set up a barricade around you and surround you and hem you in on every side

Luke 19:44 ESV

and tear you down to the ground, you and your children within you. And they will not leave one stone upon another in you, because you did not know the time of your visitation.”

A Tale of Two Views:

First - “What can you do for me?

Second - “What have you done for me?!”