Day 1 – Jesus’ Final Week – The Triumphal Entry

“Passion Week could not have begun on a bigger note! On Sunday morning Jesus and His disciples left Bethany and headed to Jerusalem. This event is significant in that it is the first episode recorded by all four Gospels since the feeding of the five thousand.” (1)

Scripture passages:
Matthew 21:1-9
Mark 11:1-10
Luke 19:28-40
John 12:12-19

Read Chapter 1 in Jesus’ Final Week.

“We can hardly imagine what this moment must have meant to Jesus. For approximately three years of ministry, He kept His identity quiet. He acknowledged His messianic identity to the Samaritan woman (John 4:25-26) and received Peter’s confession at Caesarea Philippi (Mark 8:29.) But He silenced the demons and refused to allow them to acknowledge His identity. He often told those He healed to say nothing about it. Now, at the culminatio9n of His ministry, He declared Himself to be Israel’s King by riding into Jerusalem on the back of a donkey.” (11)

(Excerpts from Chapter 1 noted by parenthetical page numbers indicating where they appear in the book)