"Then those who went ahead and those who followed were shouting,‘Hosanna! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord! Blessed is the coming kingdom of our ancestor David!Hosanna in the highest heaven!’
Then [Jesus] entered Jerusalem and went into the temple; and when He had looked around at everything, as it was already late, He went out to Bethany with the twelve." (Mark 11:9-11 NRSV)
As a teenager, I thought the triumphal entry was the most exciting story in the Gospel narratives.... Jesus had earned the hosannas of the triumph. The hosannas prove that He has done His job on earth well. The only flaw in my theory comes in this distressing verse from Mark [11:11] that indicates rather clearly that the crowd's acclaim was of no moment to Him; it was just another piece of the job He had to finish. Now that I am older, I have learned that He was right and that keeping one's attention on the kingdom rather than the crowd is the most Christ-like of the spiritual disciplines.
-- Phyllis Tickle in The Upper Room Disciplines 2000, used with permission.
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