{"id":866,"date":"2019-04-16T20:30:49","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T19:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/broughtybaptist.org\/wpsite\/?page_id=866"},"modified":"2019-04-16T20:30:49","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T19:30:49","slug":"john-1212-19-the-coming-of-the-king","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/broughtybaptist.org\/wpsite\/?page_id=866","title":{"rendered":"John 12:12-19 The Coming of the King"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

John 12:12-19 The\nComing of the King<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christmas\nis the biggest communal celebration held in the United Kingdom. The vast\nmajority of people take part in some sort of events associated with it, though\nonly a minority \u2013still in the millions- take part in the Christian aspects of\nthat festival.  Now in proportion to\nnumbers, when Passover was celebrated this was a communal event like no other\nin Israel. In addition, many thousands came from other parts of the known world\nin Europe, Asia, or North Africa and the Middle East in varying numbers to\nparticipate in this annual celebration. It was not celebrated by the majority\nin their home communities unless they were unable to travel, instead vast\nnumbers of people converged on the capital city Jerusalem for around ten days\nwhich with travelling time would have meant quite a few weeks away from home\nfor many of them. It was spring-time and ideal temperatures for being outside\nin the Holy Land.    Most people in\nIsrael at that time lived in small villages of a few hundred people at the most\nand only went outside their local area to go to Jerusalem for Jewish religious\nfestivals and even then probably only once a year. The whole community would\ntravel down together sleeping out in the open air and living very simply but\nenjoying time off work. The numbers given are huge. Thirty years after the time\nof Jesus Josephus the most well-known Jewish historian gives a figure of over\ntwo and a half million attending Passover which is in excess of the total\npopulation of Israel at that time turning up. Imagine all 5.4 million residents\nof Scotland turning up in Edinburgh for an event and you get the idea of the\novercrowding and logistical difficulties possible with such large numbers. I\nthink it likely that a figure of one million would be the maximum total in\nJesus\u2019 day, but when you realise how small Jerusalem was as a city back then\nwith incredibly narrow streets in the old city which still survive in places\nthen you can get a sense of the atmosphere of those days. The other three\ngospels focus on Jesus\u2019 heaviness of heart knowing what lay ahead of Him within\nonly a week of His entry into Jerusalem. However, John\u2019s focus is more\nimmediate on the exuberance of the crowds who have gathered on the hills around\nJerusalem and the sounds of their praises echoing round the hills and valleys.\nIn such a context the 1,200 Roman soldiers in their fortress garrison in the\ncity might have every reason to feel rather vulnerable if the crowds decided to\nturn on them and demand their independence. \nThe main garrison troops were in Damascus, Syria. In an age before\nmodern communications that was a very long way if you needed assistance at\nrelatively short notice! Let\u2019s look briefly at this remarkable day in the life\nand ministry of Jesus and see how the events of that day fitted into His\ncalling and vision for God\u2019s kingdom on earth.  \n <\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. The preparation by the king<\/strong>\n(John 12:1-11)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nother gospels, but especially Luke chose not to highlight the emotionally\ncharged crowds that were all around Jesus in the miles leading up to Jerusalem\nwith people converging from different directions to the capital city. In\nparticular in Luke 19:41-44, there are some very sober words of Jesus: As He approached Jerusalem and saw the city, He\nwept over it 42 <\/sup><\/strong>and said, <\/em>\u2018If you, even you, had only known on this day\nwhat would bring you peace \u2013 but now it is hidden from your eyes.<\/em> 43 <\/sup><\/strong><\/em>The days will come upon you when your enemies\nwill build an embankment against you and encircle you and hem you in on every side.<\/em> 44 <\/sup><\/strong><\/em>They will dash you to the ground, you and the\nchildren within your walls. They will not leave one stone on another, because\nyou did not recognise the time of God\u2019s coming to you.<\/em>\u2019 In the midst of the\ndeafening noise of the triumphant crowds enjoying their holidays Jesus on the\nMount of Olives overlooking Jerusalem views the future through very different\neyes to others around Him.  He can see\nthat their hopes for an independent Israel free from Roman control will bring\nnot the freedom they hoped for but enslavement and misery or even death for the\nvast majority of the population. It would be two thousand years before a Jewish\nstate would be established in this land again.  We need to be careful what we ask for in life.\nRarely do things turn out as we hope or expect. Sometimes of course they can be\nbetter than we had hoped but on other occasions our aspirations can be\novershadowed by unexpected difficulties. Yet in it all God is in control and\nworks for the good of His people through the good times and the tough.  Luke has focused on the longer-term future as\nHe zooms in on Jesus seeing through the exuberance that is taking place all\naround Him. We all need to have hopes and dreams they give us a focus for\nliving. Yet we need to be careful in discerning what we ask for and be sure to\ntake things to God in prayer to ensure we are not simply asking Him to bless\nour hopes rather than asking what might be Your will or plan in this situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

   However, John also in the story at Bethany\nrecorded in John 12:1-11, drew attention to some very different human\nperspectives through the account of Mary pouring some expensive perfume on\nJesus while He was staying in the home of the family Jesus had a special\nfriendship with and with whom He stayed when visiting Jerusalem. Here in that\nstory we have three perspectives: firstly of Judas Iscariot, the strong\nnationalist disciple whose big ambition was to see the Romans excluded from the\nland.  His passion was for independence\nfrom Rome. He was treasurer of the apostolic group. Sadly it appears he had\nlittle spiritual discernment about what was going on and could only view things\nfrom a materialistic perspective and saw the use of the perfume as a waste of\nmoney. How tragic for him that he never truly grasped until after Jesus\u2019\ncrucifixion that Jesus\u2019 kingdom and rule was so different from his own\nperspective. He had been so determined to get Jesus to change His course of\naction that he never took time to consider that it was him who needed to\nchange. Is this true of anyone here today? \nIs this a place you or I have been in the past? It can be sobering to\nunderstand for the first time that prayer can sometimes be more about God\nchanging us and our attitudes than changing the situation we are bringing to\nGod. Whose will do we want to be done on earth as it is in heaven? We recognise\nthat this is not easy to discern. Yet we need to learn humbly from the mistakes\nof others like Judas that our hopes may need to be redirected \u2013 if only Judas\nhad grasped this then he could have played a part in the Early Church too, but\nit was not to be.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

   The second perspective in the story comes\nfrom Mary whose devotion to Jesus resulted in the anointing of Jesus and whose\nprophetic act was recognised by Jesus. In John 12:7-8 Jesus stated: \u2018Leave her alone,\u2019<\/em> Jesus replied. <\/em>\u2018It was intended that she should save this\nperfume for the day of My burial.<\/em> 8 <\/sup><\/strong><\/em>You will always have the poor among you, but you\nwill not always have Me.\u2019<\/em> <\/em>If a TV  reporter had done a live interview with Mary\nthe day after the event it is interesting to speculate how much she had\ndiscerned about the possible events of the coming week. We will never know, but\nit was clear that somehow she was aware that Jesus\u2019 death was imminent, but I\ndoubt she could have articulated that with any clarity. We cannot blame her for\nthat \u2013 on the contrary the fact that she alone seems to have anticipated that\nwithin a short time Jesus would be dead is remarkable. I think even she might\nhave been taken aback if Jesus had told her than in a week He would be buried\nin a tomb less than two miles away. What was important for Mary was that she\ndid what God prompted her to do without knowing how that fitted into the bigger\npicture. This is crucial for us to grasp. Judas in looking for the big picture\nfailed to do what he might have done in the present. Mary, together with her\nbrother and sister Martha and Lazarus seem to have that ability to focus for\nGod on the here and now and what could be done in the present and leave the\nrest to God. It was a simple child-like faith but that kind of trust in God\nthrough Jesus is what He desires from us as well. We need to ask ourselves how\ncan I serve God by addressing the needs in front of me at the present time.\nThey were asking the right questions and Jesus loved being in their company. It\nis a lesson for us all to keep things simple. With humility to see what needs\nto be done and quietly rise to the challenge of doing what we can.  God honours those who do that just as Jesus\nsingled out Mary here. What can I do \/ help with that needs to be done? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The third perspective was that of the crowd\nrecorded in John 12:9-11: Meanwhile a large crowd of Jews found out that Jesus was\nthere and came, not only because of Him but also to see Lazarus, whom He had\nraised from the dead. 10 <\/sup><\/strong>So the chief priests made\nplans to kill Lazarus as well, 11 <\/sup><\/strong>for on account of\nhim many of the Jews were going over to Jesus and believing in Him.<\/em>\n<\/em>It\nis so interesting that these people refused to go along with the narrative of\nthe Sadducees and Pharisees that rejected Jesus as the Messiah. The\nresurrection from the dead of Lazarus, here in Bethany, recorded in John 11,\nwas the game-changer. At the human level it appeared that the likelihood of\nJesus\u2019 peaceful mission succeeding seemed so remote, yet in the light of what\nhad happened in that Bethany graveyard had revealed that anything is possible\nwith God. If Jesus can call a man back to life whose body was decaying in the\ntomb then everything else He was declaring was now viewed in a very different light.\nWe will never know if these people were among the several thousand Jews who\nbecame followers of Jesus in the first few weeks and months after the Christian\nChurch started on the Day of Pentecost. It would be quite plausible because\nthey had already had minds opened to believe that God was working through Jesus\nin unexpected ways. Sometimes we have to be honest that we don\u2019t know what God\nwants us to believe or do in a particular situation, but coming before Him in\nprayer in a spirit of openness is the right course of action as we look to Him\nfor the future.  Palm Sunday for John was\nprefaced by these three perspectives on the events that would shortly unfold \u2013\nwith which perspective do you most identify at this moment in time \u2013 if any? <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. The coming of the King <\/strong>(John\n12:12,14-15))<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2 <\/sup><\/em><\/strong>The next day the great crowd that had come for the festival heard\nthat Jesus was on His way to Jerusalem. \u2026 14 <\/sup><\/strong>Jesus\nfound a young donkey and sat upon it, as it is written: 15 <\/sup><\/strong>\u2018Do\nnot be afraid, Daughter Zion<\/em> <\/em>see, your king is coming, seated on a donkey\u2019s colt.\u2019<\/em> The events of Palm Sunday although informal and not\nofficially organised were planned to some degree in advance. The festival\nattendees, almost certainly from Galilee, but possibly including others from\nJudea who had witnessed Lazarus\u2019 resurrection from the dead, had advance\nwarning that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem and decided to prepare a welcome for\nHim. It is unique to John\u2019s account that he specifies the recognition by these\npeople of Jesus\u2019 status. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

       \nWhat was in their minds and how were they viewing Jesus? It is clear\nthat there were thousands of Galileans very open to acknowledging Jesus as the\nMessiah as the acclaimed future ruler of their country. There are occasions\nwhen this is spelt out in the Gospel accounts of the ministry of Jesus. For\nexample, after the feeding of the Five Thousand, John 6:14-15 states:  <\/sup><\/strong>After the people saw the sign Jesus performed, they began to\nsay, \u2018Surely this is the Prophet who is\nto come into the world<\/strong>.\u2019 15 <\/sup><\/strong>Jesus, knowing that\nthey intended to come and make Him king\nby force<\/strong>, withdrew again to a mountain by Himself. <\/em>It is evident from John\u2019s account that\nJesus began the day travelling on foot before later sending His disciples to\ncollect a donkey and her colt (a young donkey). The details of the two animals\nand the circumstances around their collection are given in the other gospels.\nJohn\u2019s focus is on the people and their acknowledgement of Jesus. Reading the\naccount in John 12 the focus is clearly on the kingship of Jesus.  The religious authorities may be hostile or\nindifferent at best to Jesus, but many of the ordinary people take a very\ndifferent view. They are very willing to acknowledge Him. They were in some\ncases going out to travel with Him into the city.  John 19:13 states: They \u2026went out to meet Him.\n<\/strong><\/em>The coming of the king was going to be\nacknowledged and broadcast to their fellow Jews. They were not hiding their\nprofessed allegiance to Jesus. We  would\nlove to know how many of these people later became followers of Jesus after His\nresurrection, recognising His true identity! However, we will never know the\nanswer to that question. The question for us to answer here is this: Do I\nopenly declare my allegiance to Jesus or not? This doesn\u2019t mean wearing a\ntee-shirt with printed messages or carrying a banner around Dundee city centre\nor down Brook Street in Broughty Ferry. But there should be occasions when it\nis natural as Christians to give a verbal acknowledgement of our faith to\npeople around us. There are real questions to raise about how they viewed\nJesus? Almost certainly many would have expressed their support for a military\nfigure that would overthrow the Romans and establish a new free Jewish state.\nThis was the sort of Messiah they wanted. Naturally, this raises another\nquestion: How closely do I want to follow the way of Jesus? Am I content to\nfollow the account raised in the Bible or do I want to try and fit Jesus into a\ncategory of my own making? This is a very serious question because it affects\nhow we live our lives day by day and it also has a major impact on how we\nparticipate in church life. When a group of followers of Jesus gather today to\ngenuinely seek to be like Him then some very special counter-cultural things\nmay happen over time as individuals and groups and sometimes even communities\nare changed. \u2026Now the crowd that<\/strong> was with Him<\/strong><\/em>\u2026 (John 12:17a) Prior to the familiar Palm\nSunday activities a smaller crowd travelled with Jesus on the up to two miles\njourney into Jerusalem from the direction of Bethany. These people were keen to\nacknowledge Jesus as King- are you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. The response to the King<\/strong> (John\n12:13, 16-19)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\nwere clearly three responses identified to Jesus on Palm Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(a)The disciples<\/strong> (John 12:16) <\/em>At first His disciples did not understand all this. Only after\nJesus was glorified did they realise that these things had been written about\nHim and that these things had been done to Him. <\/em>In conversations with Muslim friends they have a number of\nconcerns about the biblical text. The most serious is with Old Testament\nfigures who do things wrong or engage in sinful conduct. They are convinced\nthat a true man of God will always get things right. In response a Christian\nwill seek to reply with humility that of the people who have lived on earth only\nJesus was perfect and never made a mistake or gave a wrong judgement call. The\nrest of us have had plenty of wrong thoughts, or made wrong assessments of\nother people; said inappropriate words or took a wrong course of action- or\nfailed to take action when something ought to have been done. The only thing we\ncan say in mitigation is \u2018Thank God most of these mistakes or conscious sins\nwere very small errors and few of them caused any long-term harm to others or\nto ourselves, more often temporary embarrassment and a need to apologise prior\nto the resolution of a matter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second thing Muslim\nfriends pointed to is the ignorance of the followers of Jesus.   Why were they so slow to recognise Jesus\u2019\ntrue identity? The Bible has a very simple answer. The record we have in the\nGospels is what actually happened<\/strong>.\nChristians are real people whose fallible feet walk this earth like other\npeople. The wonderful blessing is that God calls very ordinary imperfect people\nto follow Him, people who know they have made mistakes but who in all sincerity\nwant to follow Him and live for Him and make a difference for Him in the\ncommunity in which we live. Will you commit your life to following Him if you\nhaven\u2019t done so yet? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(b) The\nauthorities<\/strong> (John 12:19) So\nthe Pharisees said to one another, \u2018See, this is getting us nowhere. Look how the\nwhole world has gone after Him!\u2019 <\/em>The\nreaction of the authorities <\/em>had always been negative towards Jesus once His ministry\nbecame public. It is clear after the raising of Lazarus from the dead that a\nred line was crossed and decisive action was called for. John 11: 47-53 records\na meeting of the Jewish ruling Counsel in which a decision was taken to\neliminate Jesus.  <\/sup><\/strong>Then the chief priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the\nSanhedrin. \u2018What are we accomplishing?\u2019 they asked. \u2018Here is this man\nperforming many signs. 48 <\/sup><\/strong>If we let him go on like\nthis, everyone will believe in him, and then the Romans will come and take away\nboth our temple and our nation.\u2019<\/em> 49 <\/sup><\/strong>Then\none of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, spoke up, \u2018You know\nnothing at all! 50 <\/sup><\/strong>You do not realise that it is\nbetter for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation\nperish.\u2019 51 <\/sup><\/strong>He did not say this\non his own, but as high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for\nthe Jewish nation, 52 <\/sup><\/strong>and not only for that nation\nbut also for the scattered children of God, to bring them together and make\nthem one. 53 <\/sup><\/strong>So\nfrom that day on they plotted to take His life. <\/strong><\/em>In the immediate future John 11:57 reminds\nus they planned to arrest Jesus. But\nthe chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that anyone who found out\nwhere Jesus was should report it so that they\nmight arrest Him<\/strong>. <\/em>Here in John 12:19\nit is clear they fear they are losing the battle of convictions and the only\nway to win the day is to kill Him. This scenario reminds us that we can be\nliving the best of lives and still face real difficulties, even hostility from\nsupposedly educated people.  These men\nought to have known better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(c)\nThe crowds <\/strong>(John 12:13,\n17-19) 13 <\/sup><\/em><\/strong>They took palm branches and went out to meet\nHim, shouting, \u2018Hosanna!\u2019 \u2018Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!\u2019<\/em> \u2018Blessed\nis the king of Israel!\u2019\u2026.17 <\/sup><\/strong>Now the crowd that was with\nHim when He called Lazarus from the tomb and raised him from the dead continued\nto spread the word. 18 <\/sup><\/strong>Many people, because they\nhad heard that He had performed this sign, went out to meet Him. <\/em>Palm branches were a nationalist symbol that had been in use in\nthe Holy Land since the time of the Maccabees in the 160s BC.  Later in the Jewish struggle against Rome in\nthe 60s AD coins were struck with the palm branches image depicting an\nindependent Jewish state. It is, therefore, likely that for some of these\npeople it was nationalist not specifically religious sentiments that were\nuppermost in their minds. Of course there would have been many others who were\ncommitted to their Jewish faith and advocated nationalist opinions. Hosanna <\/em>means either \u2018God saves\u2019 or\nliterally \u2018give salvation now\u2019. It came from Psalm 118:25, a Psalm sung\nregularly in Jewish worship services, including the major festivals in\nJerusalem. The waving of bunches of willow, myrtle and palm branches known as a\nlubab <\/strong>were a very common sight at\nthe Tabernacles Festival and possibly this practice spread to the other\nfestivals too.  Almost certainly the\nnationalistic image of Messiah promoted by these festival goers included a\ndesire to overthrown the Roman occupation. So how does Jesus respond?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    This ideology was not shared by Jesus for\nHis first coming. At His second coming He will happily be acknowledged as \u2018King\nof Kings\u2019 and reign but here at His first coming it was as a prince of peace.\nThe decision to ride into Jerusalem on a donkey in the light of Zechariah 9:9\nmade it plain His real peaceful intentions. Jesus found a young donkey and sat upon it, as it is written: 15 <\/sup><\/strong>\u2018Do\nnot be afraid, Daughter Zion<\/em> <\/em>see, your\nking is coming, seated on a donkey\u2019s colt <\/em>(John\n12:15) In contrast to Judas Maccabaeus who entered the city more than a century\nand a half earlier on a war horse, Jesus had a very different agenda. Returning\nto Zechariah 9:9-10 Rejoice greatly, Daughter Zion! Shout, Daughter Jerusalem! <\/em> See,\nyour king comes to you, righteous and victorious, lowly and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.\n10 <\/sup><\/strong>I will take away the chariots from Ephraim and the war-horses from Jerusalem, and the battle-bow will be broken.\nHe will proclaim peace to the nations<\/strong>. His rule\nwill extend from sea to sea and from the River to the ends of the earth. <\/em>How counter-cultural is our message and witness\nas Christians in a world of violence and growing hostility between different\ncountries and cultures? We have a distinctive message to proclaim. <\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. The revelation from the king<\/strong>   (John 12:20-26)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(a)The enquiry<\/strong> (John 12:20-22) 20 <\/sup><\/em><\/strong>Now there were some Greeks among those who went up to worship at\nthe festival. 21 <\/sup><\/strong>They came to Philip, who was from\nBethsaida in Galilee, with a request. \u2018Sir,\u2019 they said, \u2018we would like to see\nJesus.\u2019 22 <\/sup><\/strong>Philip went to tell Andrew; Andrew and\nPhilip in turn told Jesus.<\/em> <\/em>How\ninteresting that being distinctive positively in witness drew enquiries from\npeople attracted to what Jesus was saying and doing. There would be hostility\nand Jesus would be crucified less than a week later, but there were people\nwanting to hear more about following Him. Praise God His disciples were alert\nenough to notice their interest and follow it up. How open are we to look for\nopportunities to share our faith with people around us? Like this occasion it\nis unlikely to be expected opportunities these moments come \u2018out of the\nblue\u2019.  Remember our verse for the year\nas a church in I Peter 3:15: But in your hearts revere Christ as Lord. Always be\nprepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the\nhope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect. <\/em> This is our calling as\nfollowers of Jesus. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(b) The\nrequirement<\/strong> (John 12:23-26) <\/sup><\/em><\/strong>Jesus replied, <\/em>\u2018The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.<\/em> 24 <\/sup><\/strong><\/em>Very\ntruly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it\nremains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds.<\/em> 25 <\/sup><\/strong><\/em>Anyone\nwho loves their life will lose it, while anyone who hates their life in this\nworld will keep it for eternal life.<\/em> 26 <\/sup><\/strong><\/em>Whoever serves Me must follow Me; and where I am, My servant also\nwill be. My Father will honour the one who serves Me. <\/em>How willing are we to follow in His footsteps?  It will be a hard path to follow at times but\nit is the only way to be effective witnesses for Him.  I pray He will give each one of us the grace\nwe need to follow Him and proclaim and live faithfully the wonderful good news\nthat the world so desperately needs to hear, for Jesus\u2019 sake Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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