Holy Week Day 1 Triumphal Entry Passover Week

Holy Week Day 1: Triumphal Entry

Passover Week Became the Christian Holy Week “The Festival of Unleavened Bread, which is also called Passover, was approaching. ” Luke 22: 1 NLT

Leviticus 23: 4 -8 NLT 4 “These are the LORD’s appointed festivals, the official days for holy assembly that are to be celebrated at their proper times each year. 5 “The LORD’s Passover begins at sundown on the fourteenth day of the first month. 6 On the next day, the fifteenth day of the month, you must begin celebrating the Festival of Unleavened Bread. This festival to the LORD continues for seven days, and during that time the bread you eat must be made without yeast. 7 On the first day of the festival, all the people must stop their ordinary work and observe an official day for holy assembly. 8 For seven days you must present special gifts to the LORD. On the seventh day the people must again stop all their ordinary work to observe an official day for holy assembly. ”

Passover Unleavened Bread

3 Announce to the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each family must choose a lamb or a young goat for a sacrifice, one animal for each household. 4 If a family is too small to eat a whole animal, let them share with another family in the neighborhood. Divide the animal according to the size of each family and how much they can eat. 5 The animal you select must be a one-year -old male, either a sheep or a goat, with no defects. 6 “Take special care of this chosen animal until the evening of the fourteenth day of this first month. Then the whole assembly of the community of Israel must slaughter their lamb or young goat at twilight. Leviticus 12: 3 -6 NLT

10 th of Nisan (Sunday) Male sheep/goats brought in through Sheep Gate to be sacrificed on 14 th of Nisan —Passover (Thursday) Sheep Gate

In a moment, we will watch as Jesus enters Jerusalem through this gate. (~AD 30 -33) But first, to set the stage, we need zero in on a bloody clash that took place in the Temple 30 some years before, in 4 BC, at the beginning of the Feast of Passover being cancelled and gave birth to a tradition that was probably still being observed the day that Jesus came into Jerusalem on a donkey.

Jason & Laura Porterfield

Herod the Great Died 4 BC

Herod Archelaus Mary and Joseph moved to Nazarethe to avoid him From The War of the Jews By Flavius Josephus (37 -100 AD) �White robe, gold throne �Eagle over Temple entrance � 2 rabbis & 40 disciples �Crowd wants killers punished �Archaelaus puts them off �Growing crowd—wailing �General & others go to Temple �All stoned, many killed �After midnight Archelaus sends entire army to Temple; 3000 killed �Passover cancelled

Pontius Pilate

John 12: 1 -2, 9 -13, 17 -18 Six days before the Passover celebration began, Jesus arrived in Bethany, the home of Lazarus—the man he had raised from the dead. 2 A dinner was prepared in Jesus’ honor. Martha served, and Lazarus was among those who ate with him. 9 When Jesus raises Lazarus— John 11 all the people heard of Jesus’ arrival, they flocked to see him and also to see Lazarus, the man Jesus had raised from the dead. 10 Then the leading priests decided to kill Lazarus, too, 11 for it was because of him that many of the people had deserted them and believed in Jesus.

12 The next day, the news that Jesus was on the way to Jerusalem swept through the city. A large crowd of Passover visitors 13 took palm branches and went down the road to meet him. 17 Many in the crowd had seen Jesus call Lazarus from the tomb, raising him from the dead, and they were telling others about it. 18 That was the reason so many went out to meet him—because they had heard about this miraculous sign.

The Donkey 29 As he came to the towns of Bethphage and Bethany on the Mount of Olives, he sent two disciples ahead. 30 “Go into that village over there, ” he told them. “As you enter it, you will see a young donkey tied there that no one has ever ridden. Untie it and bring it here. 31 If anyone asks, ‘Why are you untying that colt? ’ just say, ‘The Lord needs it. ’” 32 So they went and found the colt, just as Jesus had said. 33 And sure enough, as they were untying it, the owners asked them, “Why are you untying that colt? ” 34 And the disciples simply replied, “The Lord needs it. ”

Zechariah 9: 9 NLT “Rejoice, O people of Zion! Shout in triumph, O people of Jerusalem! Look, your king is coming to you. He is righteous and victorious, yet he is humble, riding on a donkey--riding on a donkey's colt. ”

Warrior Coming in Peace

The Palm Branches Symbol for hopes for national independence. (Like separatist’s flag) Battle Cry: “For the Redemption of Zion”

The Cloaks Coronation of a king

Hosanna=Save us now!

The Tears 41 But as he came closer to Jerusalem and saw the city ahead, he began to weep. 42 “How I wish today that you of all people would understand the way to peace. But now it is too late, and peace is hidden from your eyes. 43 Before long your enemies will build ramparts against your walls and encircle you and close in on you from every side. 44 They will crush you into the ground, and your children with you. Your enemies will not leave a single stone in place, because you did not recognize it when God visited you. ”

The Gate 10 th of Nisan (Sunday) Male sheep/goats brought in through Sheep Gate to be sacrificed on 14 th of Nisan —Passover (Thursday) Sheep Gate

What will you do with the man on the donkey? • Reject him? • Cheer him on? • Follow him?