Mark 11:7-8

When they brought the colt to Jesus and threw their cloaks over it, he sat on it. Many people spread their cloaks on the road, while others spread branches they had cut in the fields.

From Background Notes [BN] for March 31^st /April 1^st written by Pastor Bob Brown:

Through two powerful symbolic actions, Jesus would dramatically tell this part of the story: first, that he came to save, the royal king riding on a donkey's colt, humble, lowly, offering himself to Israel; second…

as judge, coming suddenly to his Temple, overturning the old order in order to make room for the new one. In these ways Jesus told Israel's story by bringing it to fulfillment at last. He was a prophet, announcing the salvation of Yahweh and pronouncing judgment at the same time. As we shall note, some would receive his coming and become the Restored Israel, its covenant renewed and it mission to the world revitalized. Others would resist his kingdom message and Messianic suffering, stumbling over the cross and what it meant. Ultimately, a polarized nation would head toward its Armageddon, resulting in the loss of Temple and Land. We will see how that painful outcome was symbolized in Jesus' Cleansing of the Temple.  [BN, 3-4]

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