The Sunday before Easter has been celebrated throughout the history of 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.