Palm Sunday - Why Was Christ Entering Jerusalem?

[Era Might]

So I had a question during Palm Sunday Mass, and I stored it away in a corner of my mind for you all to answer. Why was Christ entering Jerusalem in the first place? Why was he being acclaimed as king at that moment? I don't mean the spiritual significance, but the actual reason why he was there and they were hailing him with palms...

Edited March 25, 2013 by Era Might

[OnlySunshine]

He was entering Jerusalem for the Passover.  If you remember, the Holy Family went to Jerusalem when Jesus was 12 years old and was found in the Temple.  Passover in Jerusalem was a custom.

 

 

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Edited March 25, 2013 by MaterMisericordiae

[Era Might]

oooooooo that makes sense.

[mortify]

Our Lord fulfilled the law which required all men to attend Passover (Exodus 23:14; 34:23; Deut. 16:16) and he also fulfilled prophecy Zechariah 9:9.

[Fidei Defensor]

Am I the only one who sees the issue with fulfilling prophecies that one had knowledge of beforehand? 

[Nihil Obstat]

Am I the only one who sees the issue with fulfilling prophecies that one had knowledge of beforehand? 

That is kind of the point though. Jesus fulfilled those prophecies specifically to show that He is the Messiah, the one to whom the prophecies were referring. It was quite intentional.

[Fidei Defensor]

That is kind of the point though. Jesus fulfilled those prophecies specifically to show that He is the Messiah, the one to whom the prophecies were referring. It was quite intentional.

Riding on donkeys isn't very special. Anyone could easily know the prophecies and "fulfill" them, if they are common knowledge.

[Nihil Obstat]

Riding on donkeys isn't very special. Anyone could easily know the prophecies and "fulfill" them, if they are common knowledge.

The point is that He fulfilled the prophecies as a method of claiming that He is the Messiah.

[Fidei Defensor]

The point is that He fulfilled the prophecies as a method of claiming that He is the Messiah.

Which, to me, is quite meaningless. I could do the same stuff and claim to be the Messiah.

[Nihil Obstat]

Which, to me, is quite meaningless. I could do the same stuff and claim to be the Messiah.

:idontknow: Go for it. The miracles might be trickier.

[Fidei Defensor]

:idontknow: Go for it. The miracles might be trickier.

We'll see  :whistle:

[Nihil Obstat]

We'll see  :whistle:

Put it on Youtube. If it is not on Youtube, it did not happen.

[homeschoolmom]

Good luck choosing the location of your birth and your mother. :|

[Fidei Defensor]

Good luck choosing the location of your birth and your mother. :|

Micah 5:2 "But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting."
 
"Bethlehem Ephratah" is referring to a clan, not a city.  Notice how when the "prophecy" is quoted by Matthew (Matt. 2:6) he fudges the exact words to make it sound more like a place rather than a people? Micah makes it clear that its not only a clan, but he who comes from that clan is to "waste the land of Assyria with the sword" (Micah 5:6). I don't recall Jesus doing that.

In regards to the whole "virgin" business, the passage from Isaiah, Is. 7:14, ("behold, a virgin shall conceive…") is a mistranslation into english. The word used for "virgin" is the hebrew word almah which means young girl. The hebrew word used for one who has not had sexual relations is bethulah.
 
Besides, I don't recall this so called "Immanuel" (Jesus) "shave[ing] with a razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard" (Is. 7:20). Do you? If he wanted to show his fulfillment of prophecy, he had a lot more to do than what he actually did.
 
It's all stories, additions and hearsay. Its easy to fudge things to make it fit. Edited March 26, 2013 by tardis ad astra

[mortify]

Which, to me, is quite meaningless. I could do the same stuff and claim to be the Messiah.

 

There have been many claimants to Messiahship but only One still has a following until this very day. In other cases the execution of the claimant was sufficient to terminate the following but in the case of Jesus of Nazareth something peculiar happened. Though he was executed in a manner that specifically served to humiliate him and was considered accursed by his people, Christianity spread at an incredible rate. The question is what caused this expansion, to which Christians have always provided the same answer, namely the resurrection.