Gary Gleans

John 12:27-36 27  “Now My soul has become troubled; and what shall I say, ‘Father, save Me from this hour’? But for this purpose I came to this hour.  28  “Father, glorify Your name.” Then a voice came out of heaven: “I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.”  29  So the crowd  of people  who stood by and heard it were saying that it had thundered; others were saying, “An angel has spoken to Him.”  30  Jesus answered and said, “This voice has not come for My sake, but for your sakes.  31  “Now judgment is upon this world; now the ruler of this world will be cast out.  32  “And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to Myself.”  33  But He was saying this to indicate the kind of death by which He was to die.  34  The crowd then answered Him, “We have heard out of the Law that the Christ is to remain forever; and how can You say, ‘The Son of Man must be lifted up’? Who is this Son of Man?”  35  So Jesus said to them, “For a little while longer the Light is

John 12:20-26 20  Now there were some Greeks among those who were going up to worship at the feast;  21  these then came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and  began to  ask him, saying, “Sir, we wish to see Jesus.”  22  Philip came and told Andrew; Andrew and Philip came and told Jesus.  23  And Jesus answered them, saying, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.  24  “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.  25  “He who loves his life loses it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it to life eternal.  26  “If anyone serves Me, he must follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also; if anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him. The fame of Jesus has clearly started to spread as there are now Greeks who are coming in search of Jesus.   The disciples are not quite sure what to do with this, so they pair up and go to inform Jesus of

Matthew 21:18, 19 18  Now in the morning, when He was returning to the city, He became hungry.  19  Seeing a lone fig tree by the road, He came to it and found nothing on it except leaves only; and He said to it, “No longer shall there ever be  any  fruit from you.” And at once the fig tree withered. Mark 11:12-14 12  On the next day, when they had left Bethany, He became hungry.  13  Seeing at a distance a fig tree in leaf, He went  to see  if perhaps He would find anything on it; and when He came to it, He found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.  14  He said to it, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again!” And His disciples were listening. There are some stories recorded in Scripture that do not seem to be consistent with the Character of Jesus, or at least what we are comfortable thinking about Him.   It seems rather petty of Him to curse a fig tree that did not have figs on it when figs were out of season.

Matthew 21:10-17 10  When He had entered Jerusalem, all the city was stirred, saying, “Who is this?”  11  And the crowds were saying, “This is the prophet Jesus, from Nazareth in Galilee.” 12  And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all those who were buying and selling in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who were selling doves.  13  And He said to them, “It is written, ‘MY HOUSE SHALL BE CALLED A HOUSE OF PRAYER’; but you are making it a ROBBERS’ DEN.” 14  And  the  blind and  the  lame came to Him in the temple, and He healed them.  15  But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that He had done, and the children who were shouting in the temple, “Hosanna to the Son of David,” they became indignant  16  and said to Him, “Do You hear what these  children  are saying?” And Jesus said to them, “Yes; have you never read, ‘OUT OF THE MOUTH OF INFANTS AND NURSING BABIES YOU HAVE PREPARED PRAISE FOR YOURSELF’?”

https://biblehub.com/parallelgospels/Jesus_Defies_the_Religious_Leaders_Sunday.htm The event we call the Triumphal Entry is recorded in all four of the Gospels.   It is a rather ironic event in that Jesus enters the city of Jerusalem to the accolades of a king.   The crowds gather in recognition of Him and it seems that they are ready to crown Him.   Little did they know that in a very brief period of time they would see Him crowned with thorns and that the crowd would now be calling for His crucifixion and not His coronation.   Our hearts can be just as inconsistent.   There are days when we feel close to God and rejoice in worshiping Him.   However, there are other days when the circumstances of life draw our hearts far from Him and we begin to live in doubt and question His love and goodness.     THE PROVISION OF A COLT: As Jesus is approaching Jerusalem, He sends the disciples to get a colt for Him to ride as He enters Jerusalem.   Jesus knows exactly where the colt is.  

John 11:55-12:10 55  Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the Passover to purify themselves.  56  So they were seeking for Jesus, and were saying to one another as they stood in the temple, “What do you think; that He will not come to the feast at all?”  57  Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where He was, he was to report it, so that they might seize Him. 1  Jesus, therefore, six days before the Passover, came to Bethany where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead.  2  So they made Him a supper there, and Martha was serving; but Lazarus was one of those reclining  at the   table  with Him.  3  Mary then took a pound of very costly perfume of pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped His feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.  4  But Judas Iscariot, one of His disciples, who was intending to betray Him, said,  5  “Why wa

Luke 19:11-28 11  While they were listening to these things, Jesus went on to tell a parable, because He was near Jerusalem, and they supposed that the kingdom of God was going to appear immediately.  12  So He said, “A nobleman went to a distant country to receive a kingdom for himself, and  then  return.  13  “And he called ten of his slaves, and gave them ten minas and said to them, ‘Do business  with this  until I come  back. ’  14  “But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to reign over us.’  15  “When he returned, after receiving the kingdom, he ordered that these slaves, to whom he had given the money, be called to him so that he might know what business they had done.  16  “The first appeared, saying, ‘Master, your mina has made ten minas more.’  17  “And he said to him, ‘Well done, good slave, because you have been faithful in a very little thing, you are to be in authority over ten cities.’  18  “The second came, saying,

Luke 19:1-10 1  He entered Jericho and was passing through.  2  And there was a man called by the name of Zaccheus; he was a chief tax collector and he was rich.  3  Zaccheus was trying to see who Jesus was, and was unable because of the crowd, for he was small in stature.  4  So he ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree in order to see Him, for He was about to pass through that way.  5  When Jesus came to the place, He looked up and said to him, “Zaccheus, hurry and come down, for today I must stay at your house.”  6  And he hurried and came down and received Him gladly.  7  When they saw it, they all  began  to grumble, saying, “He has gone to be the guest of a man who is a sinner.”  8  Zaccheus stopped and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, half of my possessions I will give to the poor, and if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I will give back four times as much.”  9  And Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because he, too, is a son of Abraham

Matthew 20:29-34 29  As they were leaving Jericho, a large crowd followed Him.  30  And two blind men sitting by the road, hearing that Jesus was passing by, cried out, “Lord, have mercy on us, Son of David!”  31  The crowd sternly told them to be quiet, but they cried out all the more, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us!”  32  And Jesus stopped and called them, and said, “What do you want Me to do for you?”  33  They said to Him, “Lord,  we want  our eyes to be opened.”  34  Moved with compassion, Jesus touched their eyes; and immediately they regained their sight and followed Him. Mark 10:46-52 46  Then they came to Jericho. And as He was leaving Jericho with His disciples and a large crowd, a blind beggar  named  Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, was sitting by the road.  47  When he heard that it was Jesus the Nazarene, he began to cry out and say, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!”  48  Many were sternly telling him t