We call it Palm Sunday. On this day Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey, fulfilling the prophecy of the prophet Zechariah (see Zec 9:9). The crowd welcomed him by waving palm branches, shouting ‘Hosanna’ and the words of Psalm 118:25-26.
This is the beginning of Passion Week – the most important week in human history. Interestingly, ‘passion’ comes from the Greek verb πασχω – meaning ‘to suffer’.
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The prophet Zechariah tells us what Jesus was riding – Psalm 118 tells us what the crowd was shouting – but Exodus 12 tells us where Jesus was going: to the Temple. Per God’s instruction, each family is to select a lamb without a blemish on the 10th day of the month, in anticipation of slaughtering the lamb at twilight on the 14th day. On this day, the 10th day, lambs are selected and brought to the temple. Jesus – God’s perfect lamb – will be sacrificed on the 14th day. See John 1:29.
Zec 9:9
9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is he, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
John 1:29
29 The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
Exodus 12
1 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, 2 “This month shall be for you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year for you. 3 Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month every man shall take a lamb according to their fathers’ houses, a lamb for a household. … . 5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats, 6 and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill their lambs at twilight.
7 “Then they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it. … 11 It is the Lord’s Passover. 12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the Lord. 13 The blood shall be a sign for you, on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.
14 “This day shall be for you a memorial day, and you shall keep it as a feast to the Lord; throughout your generations, as a statute forever, you shall keep it as a feast.
Psalm 118:25-26
25 Save us, we pray, O LORD!
O LORD, we pray, give us success!
26 Blessed is he who comes in the name of the LORD!
We bless you from the house of the LORD.
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