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From Bibleproject.org

Steve Hawthorne, director of the prayer ministry Waymakers, offers interesting insights about the event we call Palm Sunday.

From Seek God for the City 2020

Palm Sunday: the hope of Christ’s visitation

A lasting movement

Thousands of people gathered at the temple with Jesus early every morning, hanging on His every word (Luke 21:38). The Palm Sunday worshipers should not be confused with the much smaller mob which shouted for Jesus’ execution later in the week. That crowd was incited by Christ’s enemies, who were forced to arrest Jesus by night “because they were afraid of the people” — the very throng that had welcomed and honored Him daily with increasing devotion (Luke 22:2, Mark 14:1-2).

A prophetic portrait

Palm Sunday is sometimes dismissed as if it were a political rally gone wrong. But Jesus was all for it. He planned whatever could have been planned. And He refused to silence the celebration. He said that rocks would have cried out if the people had been restrained (Luke 19:40). The intensity mounted. The crowds increased. Eventually “all the city was stirred, saying, ‘Who is this?’” (Matthew 21:10). Those who hadn’t yet personally encountered Jesus were eager to know more.