Palm Sunday (John 12) | Bible Verse Graphics

 

Palm Sunday (Series C)

John 12:12–19

12 The next day the large crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem. 13 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!” 14 And 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!” 

16 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. 17 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. 18 The reason why the crowd went to meet him was that they heard he had done this sign. 19 So the Pharisees said to one another, “You see that you are gaining nothing. Look, the world has gone after him.” (ESV)

Commentary

Christ’s entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday brings together many images at once. Palm branches, outer garments, and a royal beast of burden point us forward to Christ’s victory on the cross. Christ is the King of Kings and Lord of Lords whose victory over sin, death, and the devil was accomplished through His suffering and death. Our King has done this so that we “may be His own and live under Him in His kingdom and serve Him in everlasting righteousness, innocence, and blessedness, just as He is risen from the dead, lives and reigns to all eternity. This is most certainly true" (Explanation of the 2nd Article in Luther's Small Catechism with Explanation, CPH: St. Louis, 2017).

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