John 2:12-19

In the spring hope! 

Jesus, all man-all God, born to the common people who would accept Him. The religious right for the most part did not. Satan seeks to kill believers simply because they believe in Jesus.

Christ within, the hope of glory.

The people make a path for Jesus to enter the city as royalty.  This Hebrew expression, Hosanna, meaning “help us” or “save us,” developed into a liturgical expression of praise. Jesus comes as a representation of the divine name—as “I am” or Yahweh. Faithlife Bible.

The chief priests were mostly Sadducees. They had an additional reason to kill Lazarus. He was a living refutation of their doctrine that there was no resurrection. Yet this was not a meeting of the Jewish council, nor was it a formal sentence of death. on account of him. The ultimate motivation for wanting to kill Lazarus was that because of him many were believing in Jesus.  Individuals were withdrawing from the Jewish leaders. This was the Sunday before Christ arose, today called Palm Sunday. Until this point, Jesus had discouraged expressions of support from the people. Here He allowed public enthusiasm. He entered Jerusalem on the back of a young donkey. This act fulfilled prophecy and as such was a symbolic proclamation that Jesus is the Messiah. The disciples did not catch the prophetic significance of Jesus’ act. After Christ’s death, resurrection, and ascension, the disciples finally understood that the OT prophecies concerning the Messiah had been fulfilled in Jesus. NKJ BIble.

John 12:12-19 (Spring A.D.30)

12 The next day a great multitude that had come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, 13 took branches of palm trees and went out to meet Him, and cried out:

“Hosanna!

‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’

The King of Israel!”

14 Then Jesus, when He had found a young donkey, sat on it; as it is written:

15 “Fear not, daughter of Zion;

Behold, your King is coming,

Sitting on a donkey’s colt.”

16 His disciples did not understand these things at first; but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about Him and that they had done these things to Him.

17 Therefore the people, who were with Him when He called Lazarus out of his tomb and raised him from the dead, bore witness. 18 For this reason the people also met Him, because they heard that He had done this sign. 

19 The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, “You see that you are accomplishing nothing. Look, the world has gone after Him!”

Psalm 118:25 | Save now, I pray, O LORD; O LORD, I pray, send now prosperity.

Psalm 118:26 | Blessed is he who comes in the name of the LORD! We have blessed you from the house of the LORD.

Isaiah 40:9 | O Zion,You who bring good tidings, Get up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, You who bring good tidings, Lift up your voice with strength, Lift it up, be not afraid; Say to the cities of Judah, “Behold your God!”

Zechariah 9:9 | “Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King is coming to you; He is just and having salvation, Lowly and riding on a donkey,A colt, the foal of a donkey.

Matthew 21:7 | They brought the donkey and the colt, laid their clothes on them, and set Him on them.

On the next day, the Lord’s day, or Sunday, the tenth day of the Jewish month Nisan, on which the paschal lamb was set apart to be “kept up until the fourteenth day of the same month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel were to kill it in the evening”. Even so, from the day of this solemn entry into Jerusalem, “Christ our Passover” was virtually set apart to be “sacrificed for us”. 

The Spirit, descending on them from the glorified Saviour at Pentecost, opened their eyes suddenly to the true sense of the Old Testament, brought vividly to their recollection this and other Messianic predictions, and to their unspeakable astonishment showed them that they, and all the actors in these scenes, had been unconsciously fulfilling those predictions.

Nisan (or Nissan), the first month on Jewish calendar (according to the Torah), coincides with mid March-mid April on the civil calendar. The Torah calls it chodesh ha-aviv—the month of spring, as it marks the beginning of the spring months.