Scripture Reading: John 19:14-22, 28-30 ESV

Now it was the day of Preparation of the Passover. It was about the sixth hour. He said to the Jews, “Behold your King!” They cried out, “Away with him, away with him, crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your King?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar.” So he delivered him over to them to be crucified.

So they took Jesus, and he went out, bearing his own cross, to the place called The Place of a Skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha. There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, and Jesus between them.Pilate also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross. It read, “Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.” Many of the Jews read this inscription, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Aramaic, in Latin, and in Greek. So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Do not write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but rather, ‘This man said, I am King of the Jews.’” Pilate answered, “What I have written I have written.”

After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, said (to fulfill the Scripture), “I thirst.” A jar full of sour wine stood there, so they put a sponge full of the sour wine on a hyssop branch and held it to his mouth. When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, “It is finished,” and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.
John 19:14-22, 28-30 ESV

Palm Sunday – Jesus’ Triumphal Entry

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,

Hosanna – “save us now”

How did they expect Jesus to save them?

Messianic Expectation: A triumphant Davidic King

• • Political Military Liberation
  • No Divine Messiah
  • Rebuilding the Temple
  • Universal Peace
  • Full Torah Observance
  • No Resurrection

The next day the large crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem.
– John 12:12 ESV

“The Next Day” – 5 Days Before Passover

The Crucifixion

Now it was the day of Preparation of the Passover. It was about the sixth hour. He said to the Jews, “Behold your King!”
– John 19:14 ESV

As many were astonished at you—
    his appearance was so marred, beyond human semblance,
    and his form beyond that of the children of mankind—
– Isaiah 52:14 ESV

After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, said (to fulfill the Scripture), “I thirst.” A jar full of sour wine stood there, so they put a sponge full of the sour wine on a hyssop branch and held it to his mouth. When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, “It is finished,” and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.
– John 19:28-30 ESV

Finished – to end, perform, execute, complete, fulfill, to complete the last act of a process, to carry out a command, paid in full

What was Accomplished?

Spiritual Liberation

And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,  by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross. He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him.
– Colossians 2:13-15 ESV

A Messiah both God & Man

• • Reference – John 17 High Priestly Prayer

Law & Prophecy Fulfilled

• • “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.
    – Matthew 5:17 ESV
  • yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.
    – Galatians 2:16 ESV

Access to God is Opened

• • Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.
    – 1 Corinthians 3:16-17 ESV

Peace Given

• • Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.
    – John 14:27 ESV

Resurrection Life

• • Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”
    – John 11:25-26 ESV
  • Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said,
    
    “Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired,
        but a body have you prepared for me;
    in burnt offerings and sin offerings
        you have taken no pleasure.
    Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come to do your will, O God,
        as it is written of me in the scroll of the book.’”
    
    When he said above, “You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings” (these are offered according to the law), then he added, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first in order to establish the second. And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
    – Hebrews 10:5-10 ESV