The following sermon is by John MacArthur, pastor, author, and Bible teacher with Grace to You.

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And now unleashing God's truth one verse at a time.

Here is Grace to you Bible teacher John MacArthur.

Now as we come to the Word of God this morning, I want you to turn back to Mark 11.

This is what is familiarly called Palm Sunday, and it's the beginning

of Passion Week as we think back to our Lord's arrival in Jerusalem, and then his crucifixion and resurrection.

As we come to Mark 11, we have Mark's account of this wonderful, wonderful week.

Obviously Matthew, Luke, and John also treat the Passion Week in detail, but for

this season, this year, we're going to look at it from Mark's perspective. We come to the

final week of our Lord's public life and ministry.

On Friday of Passion Week, he goes to the cross.

On Sunday, as you know, he rises from the dead.

So this is the end of his ministry on earth.

It begins with his arrival in Jerusalem at the Passover season.

And he's not alone. There are estimates anywhere from 600,000 to 2.5 million people in the land of Israel in and around Jerusalem at Passover season.

And one of the things that leads to that high number of, say, 2.5 million is that there's a

census in 10-year period after our Lord's death, 10 years later. There was a census that

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