Jesus's Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem (Luke 19:28-40 and 12:12-19)

Jesus's triumphal entry into Jerusalem is one of the unique accounts that's found in all four gospels (Matthew 21:1-11, Mark 11:1-10, Luke 19:28-40, and John 12:12-19). The account fulfills the prophecy in Zachariah 9:9 and reveals Jesus's Messiahship and Kingship.

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00:00 Jesus's Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem
05:51 Lesson One: The triumphal entry (Part One) fulfilled prophecy.
22:35 Lesson One: The triumphal entry (Part Two) reveals Jesus’s Messiahship.
26:49 Lesson One: The triumphal entry (Part Three) reveals Jesus’s Kingship.
34:54 Lesson Two: We should be willing to give up whatever the Lord needs.
39:47 Lesson One: The triumphal entry (Part Four) reveals Jesus’s omniscience.
47:19 Lesson Three: Jesus came to bring peace between God and man.

The Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem Fulfilled Prophecy

Let’s begin by looking at the prophecy of the triumphal entry:

Zechariah 9:9a Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you;

Because Zion is another name for Jerusalem, saying daughter of Zion and daughter of Jerusalem are both ways of referring to Jerusalem’s inhabitants, the Jews. They are told to show great exuberance, and rejoice greatly and shout aloud, because their king is coming. A coronation is a time of celebration, but the Jews have even more reason to celebrate, because listen to the way their king is described:

Zechariah 9:9b righteous and having salvation is he,

They should celebrate because of who Jesus is (righteous or just), and what he brings (salvation). Many kings throughout history have been selfish. Instead of serving people, they used people for personal gain.

When Israel rejected God as king, and asked for an earthly, human king, God could have justly given them what they wanted and let them suffer for it. But first, he graciously warned them what it would be like to have their earthly king. Listen to the repetition of the word take:

1 Samuel 8:11 [Samuel] said, “The king who will reign over you will take your sons…13 He will take your daughters…14 He will take the best of your fields…15 He will take the tenth of your grain…16 He will take…the best of your young men and your donkeys. 17 He will take the tenth of your flocks, and you shall be his slaves.”

If you would expect anyone to have a good king, it would be Israel. But God said their kings would be unjust takers. But when Zechariah prophesied about Jesus, he would be the ideal ruler. He would be just and give people the greatest gift: salvation or eternal life.

A Surprising Prophecy

Now the prophecy becomes completely shocking and contrary to anything anyone would have imagined for such a king:

Zechariah 9:9c humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

These words don’t reconcile with the previous part of the verse. You would expect to read, “Behold, your king is coming to you, great, mighty, and powerful, riding on a magnificent horse.” Instead, we read this.

Though the triumphal entry was a joyful celebration, anyone watching would wonder what was so triumphal about it. The king himself would not look like some great victor. He would look like a humble servant.

A Full Understanding of the Triumphal Entry

Many of the triumphal entry’s important details can’t be found using just one gospel. If we use just Luke’s gospel, it looks like this is the order of events leading up to the triumphal entry: Jesus heals blind Bartimaeus, Jesus visits Zacchaeus, Jesus preaches the parable of the Minas, then Jesus makes his triumphal entry. But John’s gospel records an important event that took place before the triumphal entry, and that’s when he raised Lazarus. It’s important to know this happened. When Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead (John 11:38-44), it did two things related to the triumphal entry. First, it caused the religious leaders to start plotting Jesus’s death:

John 11:53 So from that day on they made plans to put him to death.

Imagine that: Jesus raised someone from the dead and the religious leaders wanted to murder him. It gets even...

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