Gary Gleans

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