It is amazing how quickly the book of John turns around. It seems like Jesus just started doing amazing miracles and now as He enters Jerusalem a massive crowd is shouting to him:
The Triumphal Entry
12The next day the great crowd that had come for the Feast heard that Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem. 13They took palm branches and went out to meet him, shouting,
"Hosanna!"
"Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!"
"Blessed is the King of Israel!" 14Jesus found a young donkey and sat upon it, as it is written,
15"Do not be afraid, O Daughter of Zion;
see, your king is coming,
seated on a donkey's colt."
How quickly things can turn around though. In chapter 13 this heroic scene of Jesus riding into town is quickly brought back to reality when Jesus again predicts His own death…
How fitting that our chapter today fits with Palm Sunday…let us not be the kind of “Christian” that one minute glorifies Jesus as our Lord and Savior and the next turns our back on Him. Lets focus on Jesus and the sacrifice that He made with all of our hearts, souls, mind, and strength.
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