When the disciples brought the donkey and her colt, they laid their garments on the animals and set Jesus on the colt. Crowds of people walking with them laid their own garments in the street while other people cut down branches from the trees and covered the street with them. This was the way the people showed that in their hearts they knew Jesus was the Messiah. This was a royal carpet that they made for Him, out of palm branches, and that’s why the day is celebrated known as Palm Sunday.

Some of the people following were with Jesus when He raised Lazarus from the dead, and they testified of it, many others followed because they heard that Jesus had done this miracle. The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, See how you just can’t win? Look, the world is gone after Him.
There were certain Greeks (Gentiles) among those who came up to worship at the feast, and they came to Philip and asked if they could see Jesus. Philip told Andrew and they both went to tell Jesus. Jesus said, The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified. Truly, truly, I tell you, Unless a corn of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone, but if it dies, it brings forth much fruit. He that loves his life shall lose it, and he that hates his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal. If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be and if any man serve me, my Father will honor him.
Now my soul is troubled, and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause I came unto this hour. Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying,

CHILDREN OF THE LIGHT

When Jesus arrived in Jerusalem, the city was stirred saying, Who is this? The people from the crowd answered, This is Jesus, the prophet of Nazareth of Galilee. Did you know that the prophet Daniel told about this very day that Jesus rode into Jerusalem, too? He not only told that it would happen, but the very day it would happen. You can read about this in (Daniel 9:25-27), and you can study the details of it at The 70th Week of Daniel. I hope you actually do read the 70th week study and got out your calculator or a pencil and paper and did all the math for yourself, because when you realize the magic of the prophecy, it really makes you open your eyes wide and just say, Wow! It’s a great feeling when you get confirmation of things that make your faith stronger and even if you read something, sometimes you just don’t believe it as firmly as if you go through it and figure it out yourself. We are curious, us humans.

Now, the Pharisees didn’t like the fact that the people referred to Jesus as, ‘He who comes in the name of the Lord,’ because they thought it was blasphemous. They said to Jesus, Stop your disciples. Jesus answered them, I tell you, if they kept quiet, the stones would immediately cry out. You have to love the eloquence Jesus had with words, and the humor He used. Had He said ... My identity is gonna be revealed one way or another, it just wouldn’t have had the same effect as what He chose to say.

When Jesus saw the city of Jerusalem ahead of Him, it brought Him to tears and He cried, If you had only known the things needed for peace! But now they’re hidden from your eyes. (If they had only not hardened their hearts. But now the time of the Jewish people was ending with Jesus’ visit and they didn’t accept Him or believe in Him.) The days will come when your enemies will encircle you and besiege you on every side, and they’ll lay you and your children within you (Jerusalem and it’s people) flat on the ground. They won’t leave a stone unturned because you didn’t know the time of your visitation (the time your King came to see you). Jesus was talking about what will happen in the End to Jerusalem in 70 AD, as you’ll also find in (Luke 21:20).

Then Jesus went into the Temple of God, and found people selling oxen, sheep and doves. The money changers were also doing business in the Temple. Jesus made a whip out of small cords and drove them all out of the Temple, pouring out the changers money and overthrowing the tables. He said, It is written, My house shall be called of all nations, the House of Prayer; but you’ve turned it into a den of thieves. The zeal of your house has consumed me. The disciples remembered then, that David had written that long ago, (Psalm 69:9). This was also prophesied by (Isaiah 56:7 and Jeremiah 7:11).

Then the Jewish people said to Him, Are you showing us a sign by doing these things? Jesus answered them, Destroy this Temple and in three days I’ll raise it up. The people said among themselves, It took forty six years to build this Temple, and you’ll rebuild it in three days? But Jesus was talking about the Temple of His body. (Later, when Jesus was risen from the dead, His disciples remembered that He said this and they believed what Jesus said).

The blind and the lame came to Jesus then, in the Temple, and He healed them. There were also children there singing, Hosanna to the son of David. When the priests and scribes saw the miracles that Jesus performed and the children glorifying Him, it annoyed them greatly. Jesus said to them, Yea, haven’t you ever read, Out of the mouths of babes you have perfected praise? Again Jesus was quoting David’s words (Psalm 8:2). The chief priests and scribes then started looking for a reason to kill Jesus because all the people were so astonished by His teaching, but they couldn’t figure out what to do. After that, Jesus left the Temple and went outside of Jerusalem into Bethany and stayed there through the night.