Jesus enters Jerusalem as her rightful King and immediately claims His Father's house as His own. Matthew 21:12 says, “And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves.” The King will not tolerate corruption within His house; He purges it with His own hands, and He asserts His own authority over it. He explains Himself in 21:13: “It is written, My house shall be...

When Jesus rode into Jerusalem, He came deliberately as King. He sent for the colt so that the city might see Zechariah fulfilled: "Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass" (Matthew 21:5). The multitudes cried, "Hosanna to the son of David: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord" (Matthew 21:9), and all the city was moved, asking, "Who is this?" (Matthew 21:10-11). For one day, Jerusalem called...

Matthew places the healing of the two blind men at Jericho as the final miracle of Jesus' public ministry before He enters Jerusalem to die, and the placement is the sermon. Two beggars, hearing that Jesus passed by, cried, “Have mercy on us, O Lord, thou Son of David” (20:30). The multitude charged them to hold their peace, but they cried the more. Jesus “stood still,” asked what they would have Him do, and, “moved with compassion,” touched their eyes; immediately they received sight and...