Christianity as the beginning of Passion Week. It is such a vivid

contrast to the way the week ends. Jesus rides into Jerusalem as a king,

to the cheers of the crowd. We have just finished looking at the Sermon

on the Mount where Jesus describes His Kingdom. And now He arrives as

the ruler of that Kingdom. Yet, what the crowd expected that day did not

play out. Instead, Jesus embodies exactly what He has taught in the

Sermon on the Mount: that His Kingdom would be a very different kind of

kingdom. Jesus shows Himself as King just before He chooses to humble

Himself and lay down His life for the people of His Kingdom.