04.13.25

Interaction – Differences in Luke’s account of Entry (don’t attempt to take notes on this – will all be on site under ‘Order, Words, and Voices’ all week

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Authors – different persons guided by Spirit through their perspective

Matthew – Jew, former tax collector, Disciple, Apostle

Mark – Jew, Follower of Apostle Peter

Luke – Gentile, Disciple of Peter, Influenced by Paul, Doctor

John – Jew, Disciple, Apostle, (both questioned-eyewitness feel, or maybe Paul’s disciple)

Different gospel accounts

Entry

MT, MK, LK –When he had come near Bethphage and Bethany, at the place called the Mount of Olives, he sent two of the disciples…

JN – Does not mention the sending of 2 disciples, instead, we later see Jesus finding a colt to ride on into the city.

Colt

LK – you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever yet sat. Untie it and bring it here.

MT – you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her

MK – you will find a colt tied

JN – Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it

Crowd

MT, MK – Crowd

LK – The whole multitude of his disciples

JN – Large crowd that had been with him when Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead continued to bear witness. 

Cloaks and Leaves

MT, MK – Branches and Cloaks

LK – Cloaks

JN – branches of palm trees

Proclamation

MT – “Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!”

MK, LK – “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!”

JN – “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel!”

Closing Response

MT – When Jesus entered Jerusalem, the whole city was in turmoil, asking, “Who is this?”… Then Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who were selling and buying in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves….The chief priests and the scribes …became angry and said to Jesus, “Do you hear what these are saying?” Jesus said to them, “Yes; have you never read, ‘Out of the mouths of infants and nursing babies you have prepared praise for yourself’?” Jesus left them, went out of the city to Bethany, and spent the night there.

MK – And Jesus entered Jerusalem and went into the temple. And when he had looked around at everything, as it was already late, he went out to Bethany with the twelve.

LK – Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to Jesus, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples.” Jesus answered, “I tell you, if these were silent, the very stones would cry out.”

JN – The Pharisees said to one another, “You see that you are gaining nothing. Look, the world has gone after him.”

Let this information serve to be your prompt to consider

[Slide] Lacrimae rerum -Tears of Things/Tears in, Tears for

• Concept/practice/anger or tears
• Tears empower us for the next thing
• Il-Caleb in Van

Jesus Tears before Triumphant Entry complete

[Slide] As Jesus came near and saw the city, he wept over it, saying, “If you, even you, had only recognized on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. 

[Slide] Indeed, the days will come upon you when your enemies will set up ramparts around you and surround you and hem you in on every side.

[Slide] They will crush you to the ground, you and your children within you, and they will not leave within you one stone upon another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God.”  

[Slide] Then Jesus entered the temple and began to drive out those who were selling things there, and he said, “It is written, ‘My house shall be a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a den of robbers.”

[Slide] Every day he was teaching in the temple. The chief priests, the scribes, and the leaders of the people kept looking for a way to kill him, but they did not find anything they could do, for all the people were spellbound by what they heard.

(Luke 18:41-44)

[Title Slide]

• Tears for all of Jerusalem, all people and the planet, for us
• Pushing forward for people not for self
• Tears empowering Love to proceed for those Jesus loved – all.