This is the Bama Podcast with Marty Solomon. I am his co-host, Brent Billings. Today we work toward the closing of the Book of Signs in the Gospel of John as Jesus states that his hour has come.

We're going to pick up with the story of the triumphal entry. We did that back in. We covered that more in depth in session three. I think the episode is called Statement of Triumph.

We could link that if you want a deeper examination of what's happening contextually in the triumphal entry. What do you have found there? What episode are we talking about?

124. 124. We're not going to redo all that. We're going to try to focus on what's particular in the Gospel of John. We'll probably do a whole bunch of repeating of ideas. We're not going to do the same lesson over again.

There we go. We can dive in. I think I'm going to throw a passage. I don't even have your notes at you, Brent. We'll be ready for that.

Love, love reading the Bible. So, throw it all at me. Starting off, it says the next day, and remember earlier in the chapter, it says that we were six days before the Passover. This would be five days before the Passover.

It says the next day, the great crowd that had come for the festival, heard that Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem. They took palm branches and went out to meet him shouting, Hosanna.

Blessed is he who comes the name of the Lord. Blessed is the king of Israel. All right. So they see him coming and they grab palm branches, which is a weird thing to do. It has no Passover significance. That's the wrong festival. When do we grab palm branches? Brent?

It's supposed to be first coat. Sukkot. And yet the palm branch was that image. I think we talked about session three. It was the symbolic image of the zealot party. In fact, at one point in Roman history, it became, it was a crucifiable offense to wave a palm branch.

It was the sign of the revolution. It would have been seen as very zealot driven to go grab palm. And they get that because of some of the pastries we're going to look at today.

But they, you can look at Psalm 118. That's a passage I didn't give you. But if you'll go to Psalm 118 Brent.

Let's read what they're quoting because they grab palm branches. And they also actually quote a festival hymn, a festival song. They go to the Sukkot hymnal.

And they sing the Sukkot Psalm as he comes into Jerusalem. So don't just give us the quote that they quote, but give us some context there out of Psalm 118.

The stone and builders rejected has become the cornerstone. The Lord has done this. And in this marvelous in our eyes, the Lord has done it this very day. Let us rejoice today and be glad.

Lord save us Lord grant us success. Lord save us is the Hosanna part. Hosanna is the phrase there. Hosanna. And this Psalm, this Psalm is written about the day that they had the grand opening of the temple. And if we know the story of that temple and the grand opening of the temple, they, they opened the temple and associated it with the celebration of Sukkot.

So Sukkot and the temple grand opening went together. And so there was this Psalm that they wrote about the opening of the temple. The stone, the builders of reject have become the capstone. There's this wonderful midrash about how Solomon was building his temple.

And he had this stone was really oddly shaped and it was super weird and it wasn't numbered. And they had no idea what to do with it. So they just kind of like tossed it into the valley into the ravine into the garbage dump.

And then come to find out as the building progressed that it was the one stone they needed to complete the building. And so that was the midrash surrounding that phrase that the stone, the builders that they had tossed to decide they didn't think it was the right stone. They didn't think it was a stone at all.

Only to find out it was the stone that they needed the stone, the builders of reject to become the capstone. We finally have opened the temple. The Lord has done this and as marvelous in our eyes.

Go ahead. Lord save us. The Lord grant us success. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord from the house of the Lord. We bless you.

The Lord is God and he has made his light shine on us with bows in hand. Join in the festival procession up to the horns of the altar. You are my God. And I will praise you. You are my God. And I will exalt you.

If thanks to the Lord for he is good, his love endures forever. All right. So here's this grand opening of the temple.

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