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November 3

The bible reading today is in Mark 11 and John 12.

These chapters and the following chapters in these two gospel records reveal the last week of Jesus’ earthly ministry.

“Fear not, daughter of Zion; behold, your king is coming, sitting on a donkey’s colt!”

‭‭John‬ ‭12:15‬ ‭

Jesus fulfilled Zechariah’s prophesy. He rode into Jerusalem as the king of the daughter of Zion...the Messiah.

“So the Pharisees said to one another, “You see that we are gaining nothing. Look, the world has gone after him.”

‭‭John‬ ‭12:19‬

Sadly, the vast majority of people in Jerusalem for that Passover Feast did not truly believe Him. He said that he had come from the Father to save his people from their sins. That would have made him God. And most were not buying it.

What Jerusalem was looking for in a Messiah was a political, military savior to deliver them from Rome. In fact, most of the great throng of people in Jerusalem that greeted him so enthusiastically on Palm Sunday, five days later they were yelling and mocking him and calling for him to be crucified.

Back to the text...“Now among those who went up to worship at the feast were some Greeks. So these came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and asked him, “Sir, we wish to see Jesus.” Philip went and told Andrew; Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus. And Jesus answered them, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.”

‭‭John‬ ‭12:20-23‬

Those Greeks that wanted an audience with Jesus were they converts to Judaism? Were they God-fearers who respected the Jews and were also waiting for the political Messiah?

But perhaps the better guess as to why the Greeks’ were seeking Jesus in Jerusalem at the festival was related to a significant event that took place in the Temple. We read it in Mark 11...

“...And Jesus entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold and those who bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. And he was teaching them and saying to them, “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it a den of robbers.”

‭‭Mark‬ ‭11:15, 17‬ ‭

Personally, I want to believe that the Greeks heard how Jesus cleared the court of the Gentiles of commercial activity by the corrupted priests so that it would again be open and available for all non-Jews to come and learn of Yahweh.

“The miracle worker Jew is fighting for us. And not surprising...for Jesus said, “My house shall be called a House of Prayer for “all” the nations.”

“Sirs, we would see Jesus.”....a quote from the curious...the interested...the Gentile that no one else in Jerusalem cared about.

May millions more have that desire to see and learn of the Savior.

Have a great day