Reflections on Palm Sunday

“Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is he, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.”
- Zechariah 9:9

“This is ‘your’ King, your very own. He is not a foreign king or a king bent on his own aggrandizement at the expense of the people, but One who had been commissioned to seek and to save. He ‘is coming to you,’ that is, to benefit you.”
- William Hendriksen

“Blessed is the King who who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!”
- Luke 19:38

“Jesus is King; but the earthly Jerusalem is too small and mean [i.e., humble] to contain his majesty. All nations are to be his. He is the Savior of the world.”
- Michael Wilcock

“And some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to him, ‘Teacher, rebuke your disciples.’ He answered, ‘I tell you, if these were silent, the very stones would cry out.’”
- Luke 19:39-40

“Rejecting the peaceful coming of Christ, hardened sinners await his next coming, which is in wrath and judgment.”
- W. F. Adeney