The Triumphal Entry Note cards

The Triumphal Entry by Rosemarie Adcock “Say to the Daughter of Zion,‘Behold your King is coming to you, gentle, and mounted on a donkey,Even on a colt, the foal of a beast of burden.” This painting depicts what is known as the Triumphal Entry of Jesus into Jerusalem, the event we still celebrate every Palm Sunday. In Matthew 21, Jesus instructed His disciples to get the foal of a donkey, and after they laid their coats on it, Jesus sat on the coats. Most of the crowd spread their coats in the road, and others were cutting branches from the trees and spreading them in the road. The crowds were shouting: “Hosanna to the Son of David;Blessed is He who comes in the Name of the Lord;Hosanna in the highest!” The Triumphal Entry when Jesus was recognized as King was a short-lived recognition in the eyes of the crowds, because He would be killed by the end of the same week. Jesus Himself knew this. Later in Matthew’s Gospel, He passionately lamented,“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophe