Saying, Blessed be the King that cometh in the name of the Lord: peace in heaven, and glory in the highest.
The shout hails Jesus as the promised King coming with divine authority as He rides lowly on a colt into Jerusalem to the Passover. The disciples and multitudes raise it with loud praise to God for His healings, deliverances and raising of the dead, spreading garments and palm branches in His path. He accepts this royal homage, which He had before refused because His kingdom is not of this world, though the crowd expects Him to take David's throne and free Israel from Rome. The testimony has to be given to fulfill prophecy given centuries before, and when the Pharisees demand its silencing He answers that the stones would cry out if the people held their peace. That open praise is the pattern for His people now, with still greater cause as they look for His return not lowly as at Bethlehem and Jerusalem but in the glory of the Father with all the holy angels.
Entry Into Jerusalem
The shout was raised as Jesus rode meekly into Jerusalem for the Passover, seated on an ass's colt, hailed by disciples and multitudes as the King coming in the name of the Lord, with peace in heaven and glory in the highest. The disciples publicly welcomed Him in that hour, praising God for His mighty works while proclaiming that heavenly peace and highest glory. Their acclamation expressed joy and hope in His royal coming as He entered the city.
The crowd praised God with a loud voice for His mighty works of healing, for raising the dead, for deliverance received, and for all His other mighty works, with blessing on their lips. They recounted His good works as the ground of their hailing Him as King.
The acclamation took place near Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, whose slopes echoed the joyous shouts as He rode toward the city shortly before His trial. It was on the first day of the week on the way to the Passover, when He rode a colt upon which no man had sat, with the disciples spreading their garments upon the colt and setting Him upon it. A large enthusiastic crowd had gathered after the miracle of raising Lazarus from the dead, and the multitude continually increased with Passover travelers going up to the feast and with thousands coming out from Jerusalem to meet and escort Him to the city.
The people honored Him with happy, excited worship rather than outward royal pomp or costly gifts, giving Him the worship of happy hearts. They spread their outer garments as a carpet in His path and upon the colt, strewed leafy branches of olive and palm in the way, and waved palm boughs aloft as nature's emblem of victory. The loud shout of triumph was raised as soon as He was seated, with acclamations and hosannas repeated again and again and echoed from the surrounding hills and valleys. The joyful entry drew astonished spectators asking who He was, while priests and rulers were alarmed to find the temple service forsaken because the world had gone after Him. The crowd gathered around Him raising palm branches and spreading garments on the road as He rode the donkey into Jerusalem.
Jesus now accepted this homage as King, which He had never before permitted and had refused when men tried to make Him an earthly king, because He had declared that His kingdom was not of this world. His disciples took His acceptance as proof that their hope of seeing Him acknowledged in Jerusalem as Israel's King would be fulfilled.
Their joy arose amid hope that He would take David's throne and take possession of it in Jerusalem, establish a prosperous reign, deliver Israel from oppressors, and grant political emancipation and independence from Rome. But they mistakenly expected an earthly kingdom and political independence, misunderstanding what was about to happen. Their praise reflected honor due Him as the promised King, yet the disciples understood the triumph as heralding a prosperous reign on David's throne and forgot that His sacrifice and death were near.
Within days they saw Him die, stretched upon the cruel cross above the mocking, taunting Pharisees instead of reigning as king, so their high hopes collapsed and the darkness of death closed about them. That disappointment was greater than the later disappointment after looking for the coming of the Lord. Yet His resurrection revived their hope, they found their Savior again, and only then understood that prophecy had foretold His suffering. Christ was true to His promises, with sweet consolation for His people and rich reward for the true and faithful.
Prophecy Cannot Be Silenced
The shout that hailed the coming King belongs to prophecy, for more than five hundred years before it had been foretold that Zion's King would come lowly, riding upon an ass and upon a colt the foal of an ass, and that word was fulfilled when the multitude going up to the feast hailed Him as Messiah and King as soon as He was seated on the colt near Jerusalem at Passover time. It also fulfills Isaiah's call to Jerusalem to lift up its voice and announce, Behold your God, which was met when the disciples publicly welcomed Jesus as the King who comes in the Lord's name, praising God for His mighty works and proclaiming peace in heaven and glory in the highest. Their praise recounted His good works of healing, His raising of the dead, and all His other mighty works, with blessing on their lips, uttered with joy and hope in His royal coming at the Mount of Olives. The happy, excited throng, who could offer no costly gifts, spread their outer garments as a carpet in His path and strewed olive and palm branches in the way, believing they were escorting Christ to take possession of David's throne in Jerusalem.
That testimony had to be given because prophecy must be fulfilled, even though the people would not receive Christ as their only hope. Acting on their belief that He would take David's throne fulfilled prophecy, though they misunderstood what was about to happen. When Pharisees, priests and rulers demanded that Jesus rebuke and silence the disciples, He refused, declaring that if they held their peace the stones would immediately cry out and proclaim Him. God will have glory from some people, so the adoration and announcement of Christ could not be prevented, and the attempt by Pharisees and rulers to stop it could not silence this recognition. His praise is fitting and cannot ultimately be silenced, and His commandment-keeping people will not be so cold and silent as to withhold it.
The same unsilenceable purpose is seen after the entry, for when rulers tried to silence the praise the children later continued it in the temple. The rejoicing multitude had acclaimed Jesus as the promised King, the Son of David, as He approached Jerusalem, and their praise fulfilled prophecy even under opposition. So the verse illustrates that God's message about Christ cannot be suppressed: when adult messengers were silenced in Sweden, God worked through children to proclaim the first message of Christ's near advent.
Mercy, Praise and Return
The shout belongs to Christ's riding into Jerusalem and to His weeping over the devoted city from the crest of Olivet. It is a solemn subject, for it shows the mercy and love of Jesus toward the city even while that mercy and love were being rejected by it. It points to His dying for sinful man so that he might not perish in his sins. His weeping over Jerusalem looked beyond the destruction of Jerusalem to an impenitent world doomed to destruction.
His first advent called forth rejoicing and praise, as the whole multitude of disciples rejoiced and praised God with a loud voice while He meekly rode in, hailing Him as the King that comes in the name of the Lord, with peace in heaven and glory in the highest, spreading garments and palm branches in the way. When the Pharisees demanded that He silence and rebuke them, He answered that if they held their peace the stones would immediately cry out, because God will have glory from some people and will receive praise. If His chosen people who keep His commandments held their peace the very stones would cry out. Their loud open praise is the pattern for His commandment-keeping people to praise and glorify God aloud and even with a loud voice, and not to be cold and silent or cold and afraid to glorify Him. Those who profess to look for Christ yet want loud praise silenced and call it extravagant, wild, fanaticism and mesmerism act like those Pharisees.
The entry is connected with similar scenes that will take place in the last great day. The disciples' praise is a pattern for praising God aloud, and the hope of Christ's glorious return gives even greater cause for such praise. The prospect of the second coming is far more glorious than what the disciples saw, for Jesus comes not as a babe in Bethlehem nor as He rode into Jerusalem, but in the glory of the Father with all the holy angels, so His people must not hold their peace.
The shout hails Jesus as the promised King coming with divine authority as He rides lowly on a colt into Jerusalem to the Passover. The disciples and multitudes raise it with loud praise to God for His healings, deliverances and raising of the dead, spreading garments and palm branches in His path. He accepts this royal homage, which He had before refused because His kingdom is not of this world, though the crowd expects Him to take David's throne and free Israel from Rome. The testimony has to be given to fulfill prophecy given centuries before, and when the Pharisees demand its silencing He answers that the stones would cry out if the people held their peace. That open praise is the pattern for His people now, with still greater cause as they look for His return not lowly as at Bethlehem and Jerusalem but in the glory of the Father with all the holy angels.
Entry Into Jerusalem
The shout was raised as Jesus rode meekly into Jerusalem for the Passover, seated on an ass's colt, hailed by disciples and multitudes as the King coming in the name of the Lord, with peace in heaven and glory in the highest. The disciples publicly welcomed Him in that hour, praising God for His mighty works while proclaiming that heavenly peace and highest glory. Their acclamation expressed joy and hope in His royal coming as He entered the city.
The crowd praised God with a loud voice for His mighty works of healing, for raising the dead, for deliverance received, and for all His other mighty works, with blessing on their lips. They recounted His good works as the ground of their hailing Him as King.
The acclamation took place near Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, whose slopes echoed the joyous shouts as He rode toward the city shortly before His trial. It was on the first day of the week on the way to the Passover, when He rode a colt upon which no man had sat, with the disciples spreading their garments upon the colt and setting Him upon it. A large enthusiastic crowd had gathered after the miracle of raising Lazarus from the dead, and the multitude continually increased with Passover travelers going up to the feast and with thousands coming out from Jerusalem to meet and escort Him to the city.
The people honored Him with happy, excited worship rather than outward royal pomp or costly gifts, giving Him the worship of happy hearts. They spread their outer garments as a carpet in His path and upon the colt, strewed leafy branches of olive and palm in the way, and waved palm boughs aloft as nature's emblem of victory. The loud shout of triumph was raised as soon as He was seated, with acclamations and hosannas repeated again and again and echoed from the surrounding hills and valleys. The joyful entry drew astonished spectators asking who He was, while priests and rulers were alarmed to find the temple service forsaken because the world had gone after Him. The crowd gathered around Him raising palm branches and spreading garments on the road as He rode the donkey into Jerusalem.
Jesus now accepted this homage as King, which He had never before permitted and had refused when men tried to make Him an earthly king, because He had declared that His kingdom was not of this world. His disciples took His acceptance as proof that their hope of seeing Him acknowledged in Jerusalem as Israel's King would be fulfilled.
Their joy arose amid hope that He would take David's throne and take possession of it in Jerusalem, establish a prosperous reign, deliver Israel from oppressors, and grant political emancipation and independence from Rome. But they mistakenly expected an earthly kingdom and political independence, misunderstanding what was about to happen. Their praise reflected honor due Him as the promised King, yet the disciples understood the triumph as heralding a prosperous reign on David's throne and forgot that His sacrifice and death were near.
Within days they saw Him die, stretched upon the cruel cross above the mocking, taunting Pharisees instead of reigning as king, so their high hopes collapsed and the darkness of death closed about them. That disappointment was greater than the later disappointment after looking for the coming of the Lord. Yet His resurrection revived their hope, they found their Savior again, and only then understood that prophecy had foretold His suffering. Christ was true to His promises, with sweet consolation for His people and rich reward for the true and faithful.
Prophecy Cannot Be Silenced
The shout that hailed the coming King belongs to prophecy, for more than five hundred years before it had been foretold that Zion's King would come lowly, riding upon an ass and upon a colt the foal of an ass, and that word was fulfilled when the multitude going up to the feast hailed Him as Messiah and King as soon as He was seated on the colt near Jerusalem at Passover time. It also fulfills Isaiah's call to Jerusalem to lift up its voice and announce, Behold your God, which was met when the disciples publicly welcomed Jesus as the King who comes in the Lord's name, praising God for His mighty works and proclaiming peace in heaven and glory in the highest. Their praise recounted His good works of healing, His raising of the dead, and all His other mighty works, with blessing on their lips, uttered with joy and hope in His royal coming at the Mount of Olives. The happy, excited throng, who could offer no costly gifts, spread their outer garments as a carpet in His path and strewed olive and palm branches in the way, believing they were escorting Christ to take possession of David's throne in Jerusalem.
That testimony had to be given because prophecy must be fulfilled, even though the people would not receive Christ as their only hope. Acting on their belief that He would take David's throne fulfilled prophecy, though they misunderstood what was about to happen. When Pharisees, priests and rulers demanded that Jesus rebuke and silence the disciples, He refused, declaring that if they held their peace the stones would immediately cry out and proclaim Him. God will have glory from some people, so the adoration and announcement of Christ could not be prevented, and the attempt by Pharisees and rulers to stop it could not silence this recognition. His praise is fitting and cannot ultimately be silenced, and His commandment-keeping people will not be so cold and silent as to withhold it.
The same unsilenceable purpose is seen after the entry, for when rulers tried to silence the praise the children later continued it in the temple. The rejoicing multitude had acclaimed Jesus as the promised King, the Son of David, as He approached Jerusalem, and their praise fulfilled prophecy even under opposition. So the verse illustrates that God's message about Christ cannot be suppressed: when adult messengers were silenced in Sweden, God worked through children to proclaim the first message of Christ's near advent.
Mercy, Praise and Return
The shout belongs to Christ's riding into Jerusalem and to His weeping over the devoted city from the crest of Olivet. It is a solemn subject, for it shows the mercy and love of Jesus toward the city even while that mercy and love were being rejected by it. It points to His dying for sinful man so that he might not perish in his sins. His weeping over Jerusalem looked beyond the destruction of Jerusalem to an impenitent world doomed to destruction.
His first advent called forth rejoicing and praise, as the whole multitude of disciples rejoiced and praised God with a loud voice while He meekly rode in, hailing Him as the King that comes in the name of the Lord, with peace in heaven and glory in the highest, spreading garments and palm branches in the way. When the Pharisees demanded that He silence and rebuke them, He answered that if they held their peace the stones would immediately cry out, because God will have glory from some people and will receive praise. If His chosen people who keep His commandments held their peace the very stones would cry out. Their loud open praise is the pattern for His commandment-keeping people to praise and glorify God aloud and even with a loud voice, and not to be cold and silent or cold and afraid to glorify Him. Those who profess to look for Christ yet want loud praise silenced and call it extravagant, wild, fanaticism and mesmerism act like those Pharisees.
The entry is connected with similar scenes that will take place in the last great day. The disciples' praise is a pattern for praising God aloud, and the hope of Christ's glorious return gives even greater cause for such praise. The prospect of the second coming is far more glorious than what the disciples saw, for Jesus comes not as a babe in Bethlehem nor as He rode into Jerusalem, but in the glory of the Father with all the holy angels, so His people must not hold their peace.