Isa 62:11 Behold, the LORD hath proclaimed unto the end of the world, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.
Isa 62:12 And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the LORD: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken. |
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John 12:1 Jesus, therefore, six days before the Passover, came to Bethany where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead.
John 12:2 So they made Him a supper there, and Martha was serving; but Lazarus was one of those reclining at the table with Him.
John 12:3 Mary therefore took a pound of very costly perfume of pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped His feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.
John 12:4 But Judas Iscariot, one of His disciples, who was intending to betray Him, said,
John 12:5 “Why was this perfume not sold for three hundred denarii, and given to poor people?”
John 12:6 Now he said this, not because he was concerned about the poor, but because he was a thief, and as he had the money box, he used to pilfer what was put into it.
John 12:7 Jesus therefore said, “Let her alone, in order that she may keep it for the day of My burial.
John 12:8 “For the poor you always have with you, but you do not always have Me.”
John 12:9 The great multitude therefore of the Jews learned that He was there; and they came, not for Jesus’ sake only, but that they might also see Lazarus, whom He raised from the dead.
John 12:10 But the chief priests took counsel that they might put Lazarus to death also;
John 12:11 because on account of him many of the Jews were going away, and were believing in Jesus.
John 12:12 On the next day the great multitude who had come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,
John 12:13 took the branches of the palm trees, and went out to meet Him, and began to cry out, “Hosanna! BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD, even the King of Israel.”
John 12:14 And Jesus, finding a young donkey, sat on it; as it is written,
John 12:15 “FEAR NOT, DAUGHTER OF ZION; BEHOLD, YOUR KING IS COMING, SEATED ON A DONKEY’S COLT.”
John 12:16 These things His disciples did not understand at the first; but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written of Him, and that they had done these things to Him.
John 12:17 And so the multitude who were with Him when He called Lazarus out of the tomb, and raised him from the dead, were bearing Him witness.
John 12:18 For this cause also the multitude went and met Him, because they heard that He had performed this sign.
John 12:19 The Pharisees therefore said to one another, “You see that you are not doing any good; look, the world has gone after Him.”
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Transforming Power Points:
#1) The promises of God nestled within the Law, the Psalms and the Prophets began to announce the majestic coming of Messiah, Jesus Christ, God’s King many generations prior to His first arrival and even spoke of the manner of the first arrival, and His final arrival in the holy Scriptures.
#2) The Jews who were the receivers of the holy Scriptures were always on the look out for the signs that the Prophets had spoken about Messiah and held regular feasts which depicted the possibility and the hope of His blessed arrival and lived in anticipation of that marvelous time.
#3) Just one week {six days before the Passover} Jesus was received as the Blessed One who comes in the Name of the Lord, and a week later due to the spiritual ignorance and pride of the religious leaders and the Gentiles Jesus was rejected by the ‘majority’ and was crucified; another well predicted event long since written in holy Scripture. |
