When Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey, there was no pomp and

pageantry the kind you'd expect from a royal entrance. So what does this mean? And why should it matter?

Today we'll look at the answers to these two vital questions as Alistair Begg concludes a

message titled Palm Sunday Perspective on Truth for Life.

Well we just turned by to Mark 11 although we could really stay in John or good Matthew

or even look if we chose because they are all correlative passages concerning the

dramatic approach of Jesus into the city. Now we tried to cover that this morning and we said that

it remained for us only to address two questions and I'm not going to take a long time on them at

least it's not my plan to. Question number one was what does all this mean and question number

two was why should any of this matter. Now you'll notice from our reading that Jesus had arrived in

Jerusalem from the east he had come down the Jericho road. It was possible for him to slip out

through the crowd he was able to make his way into various places undetected we read that in the

gospels in various parts and so the very fact that he comes as he comes to Jerusalem tells us something

very important namely that on this occasion he planned to be noticed he is in some senses throwing

down the gauntlet he is making it perfectly clear to the crowds by his actions that all that he

has been teaching them in these previous three years is now coming to one great and dramatic conclusion

and in Matthew's account he tells us that Jesus acted this way in fulfillment of the ancient

prophecy of Zachariah and if you're using the NIV you will be helped by the heading here that comes

at the 9th verse the coming of Zion's king and we read these words rejoice greatly O daughter of Zion

shout daughter of Jerusalem see your king comes to you righteous and having salvation gentle and

riding on a donkey on a cold the fall of a donkey you'll notice that this prophetic statement in

verse 9 finds its fulfillment here in the arrival of Jesus in Jerusalem the prophetic statement

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