Then the Pharisees said to one another, “You can see that this is doing you no good. Look how the whole world has gone after Him!”The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, “See how you accomplish nothing. Behold, the world has gone after him.”The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, Perceive ye how ye prevail nothing? behold, the world is gone after him.The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, Behold how ye prevail nothing; lo, the world is gone after him.
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… And that's the chapter or the book I've selected for today. And then, of course, John chapter 12, verses 12 to 19. John records it from his eyes. Why is this important? I don't want to get too much into this, except that the Bible says that before two or three witnesses, the truth shall be established. Which, by the way, if you're an attorney, or maybe you're a judge, or maybe you're involved in law, did you know that our jurisprudence of the United States of America is founded upon the biblical requirement of you not being able to be convicted without multiple witnesses? Did you know our founding fathers got that from the scriptures? and God brings it on the stage and says, here are, watch this, here are three eyewitnesses that are going to record the events of other eyewitnesses and I've added a fourth, John's Gospel, and it's a beautiful thing to look at because we love, for example, quadraphonic sound. Remember those days? Some of us are old enough. …
John chapter 12, verses 12 to 19. Hear the word of the Lord. The next day, the large crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem. So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, crying out, Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel. And Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, just as it is written, Fear not, daughter of Zion. Behold, your king is coming, sitting on a donkey's colt. His disciples did not understand these things at first. But when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written about him and had been done to him. The crowd that had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead continued to bear witness. The reason why the crowd went to meet him was that they heard he had done this sign. So the Pharisees said to one another, you see that we are gaining nothing. …
… And many people, because they had heard that he had performed this sign, went out to meet him. So the Pharisees said to one another, see, this is getting us nowhere. Look how the whole world has gone after him. Massive crowd, big momentum, lots of energy, all focused on this powerful, miracle-working Jesus. But Jesus, he's thinking something else in this moment, far greater than they can understand. He's fulfilling prophecies. Riding on the colt of a donkey is a prophecy that he's fulfilling. But there's another prophecy that I want you to see about him that's giving us insight into what Jesus is thinking in this moment. Isaiah 50, talking about the sin of the people and the saving power of God, is describing now Jesus. The sovereign Lord has given me a well-instructed tongue. This is speaking of Jesus hundreds of years before the moment that we're now in on Palm Sunday. To know the word that sustains the weary. He wakens me morning by morning, wakens my ear to listen like one being instructed. …