The Coming of the King (Mark 10:46-11:11)

[Sung Psalm: 118]

What does it mean for the king to ride on a donkey? Why not a war horse?!!

Wouldn’t it be a more powerful symbol for Jesus to ride a war horse into Jerusalem?

No, if Jesus had ridden a war horse into Jerusalem, he would have been saying, “I am not the Son of David!”

Because back in 1 Kings 1, when David wanted to have Solomon crowned king, David had said to Bathsheba and Zadok and Nathan, "Have Solomon my son ride on my own mule..."

Zechariah 9 sees the day coming when the King will again come to Jerusalem riding on a donkey. And notice that the prophet says the war horse will be cut off from Jerusalem.

Zechariah 9 speaks of the coming of the King as the coming of salvation – as the restoration of the glory of Jerusalem.

When the King rides into Jerusalem on a donkey, that will be the day that peace is restored to God’s people!

Their enemies will be defeated – and the King will rule “from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.”

And so Jesus rides into Jerusalem on a donkey!