
The Crowd That Acclaimed Him
Read: Matthew 21:1-11 Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! (v. 9) Holy Week begins with Palm Sunday and Jesus’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem. Notice three
Read: Matthew 21:1-11 Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! (v. 9) Holy Week begins with Palm Sunday and Jesus’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem. Notice three
Read: Isaiah 53:5-8 The LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all. (v. 6) What is the central message of the Christian faith? The apostle Paul summarized his
Read: Luke 15:1-7 All we like sheep have gone astray. (v. 6) The prayer of confession for the morning service in the Book of Common Prayer teaches us to pray
Read: Isaiah 53:4-5 With his wounds we are healed. (v. 5) The Apostles’ Creed, the most ancient summary of Christian belief, describes the entire earthly life of Jesus between his
Read: 1 Corinthians 12:1-3 Yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God. (Isa. 53:4) Imagine that you are part of a gathering for worship at a Jewish synagogue in a
Read: John 11:32-43 . . . a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. (Isa. 53:3) Some people are spared much of the pain and sorrow of life. For them
Read: Isaiah 53:3 He was despised and rejected by men. (v. 3) Of all the pains life can hold, among the bitterest is the pain and hurt of rejection. Some
Read: Acts 8:26-39 Who is the prophet talking about? (v. 34 NIV) When the Messiah would come into the world, says Isaiah, he wouldn’t “fit the profile.” He wouldn’t stand
Read: Isaiah 52:13-53:2 He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. (v. 2 NIV) Isaiah is sometimes called
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