Introduction
Jesus rides into Jerusalem and teaches in the temple.
Questions
1. What did the multitudes shout as Jesus rode into Jerusalem?
v 9 ... “Hosanna to the son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!”
2. What did Jesus do in the temple?
v 12 Jesus entered into the temple of God, and drove out all of those who sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the money changers’ tables and the seats of those who sold the doves.
v 14 The blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them.
3. Why couldn't the chief priests and Pharisees seize Jesus?
v 46 When they sought to seize him, they feared the multitudes, because they considered him to be a prophet.
Summary Points
- v 1 to 11 After sending two disciples to fetch a donkey and her colt, Jesus rides into Jerusalem and the people acclaim Jesus as the son of David, their saviour, (Hosanna means "save now"). After he arrives at Jerusalem, the city is stirred up and Jesus is acclaimed as a prophet
- v 12 to 16 Jesus drives the traders out of the temple and overthrows the moneychangers' tables and dove sellers' seats. He then heals many people to the annoyance of priests and scribes
- v 17 to 22 Jesus makes a fig tree wither. He cites it as an example of what can be done with sufficient faith
- v 23 to 27 The chief priests challenge Jesus’ authority to teach, and Jesus challenges them about John’s baptism
- v 28 to 32 Jesus shows that those who repent from a godless way of life will have precedence over those who claim to be godly, but fail to be so
- v 33 to 41 Jesus tells the chief priests and Pharisees a parable about a man who lets out his vineyard to men who refuse to let him have the vineyard's fruit. The master of the vineyard then lets it out to men who will give him the fruit
v 42 to 46 Jesus is saying that God's Kingdom will be taken from them and given to other people. The chief priests and Pharisees then want to seize Jesus, but they fear the peoples' reaction