Last evening I downloaded The Lexham English Bible, which Logos is giving away to Logos Libronix users. Information here. The Lexham Bible is available free in several popular formats here. I decided to share this text about Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem in preparation for His death. Notes have been removed. The note are an important part of The Lexham Bible, but you may read those when you download your own copy.
And when they drew near to Jerusalem and came to Bethphage at the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples, 2 saying to them, “Go into the village before you, and right away you will find a donkey tied and a colt with her. Untie them“bring them to me. 3 And if anyone says anything to you, you will say, ‘The Lord needs them,’ and he will send them at once.” 4 Now this took place so that what was spoken through the prophet would be fulfilled, saying,5 “Say to the daughter of Zion,‘Behold, your king is coming to you,humble and mounted on a donkey,
and on a colt, the foal of a pack animal.’”6 So the disciples went and did just as Jesus directed them, 7 and brought the donkey and the colt and put their cloaks on them, and he sat on them. 8 And a very large crowd spread their cloaks on the road, and others were cutting branches from the trees and spreading on the road. 9 And the crowds who went ahead of him and the ones who followed were shouting, saying,“Hosanna to the Son of David!
Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord!
Hosanna in the highest heaven!”
Donkey and Colt at Nazareth Village. Photo by Ferrell Jenkins.
The late William Hendriksen makes these comments about this important event.
However, he also shows the crowds what kind of Messiah he is, namely, not the earthly Messiah of Israel’s dreams, the One who wages war against an earthly oppressor, but the One who came to promote and establish “the things that make for peace” (Luke 19:42), lasting peace: reconciliation between God and man, and between a man and his fellow man. Accordingly, Jesus enters Jerusalem mounted on a colt, the foal of an ass, an animal associated not with the rigors of war but with the pursuits of peace, for he is the Prince of Peace (Isa. 9:6).
But the people in general, their minds filled with earthly ideas concerning the Coming One, did not understand or appreciate this. In hailing him as the Messiah, the people were right; the Pharisees, chief priests, and scribes (Matt. 21:15, 16; Luke 19:39, 40) were wrong. But in expecting this Messiah to reveal himself as a political, earthly Messiah the Hosanna shouters were as wrong as were their leaders. Those who in every way rejected Jesus were committing a crime, but those who outwardly “accepted” and cheered him were also doing him a gross injustice, for they did not accept him for what he really was. Their tragic mistake was committed with dire results for themselves. (William Hendriksen, New Testament Commentary : Exposition of the Gospel According to Matthew, 760)
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