The Triumphal Entry of The Lowborn King

John 12:12-19

The Triumphal Entry

12 The next day the large crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus wascoming to Jerusalem. 13 So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him,crying out, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, even the King ofIsrael!” 14 And Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, just as it is written,

15  “Fear not, daughter of Zion;

behold, your king is coming,

sitting on a donkey’s colt!”

16 His disciples did not understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, thenthey remembered that these things had been written about him and had been done tohim. 17 The crowd that had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb andraised him from the dead continued to bear witness. 18 The reason why the crowd went tomeet him was that they heard he had done this sign. 19 So the Pharisees said to oneanother, “You see that you are gaining nothing. Look, the world has gone after him.”

(ESV)