A week of contrasts. To me more evident in this week of his ministry than any other week. We start the week with Jesus’ triumphal entrance into Jerusalem. The crowds yelling, “Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!” It ends with the crowds yelling “Crucify him!”
It starts with twelve of Jesus’ disciples and hundreds of followers to his followers leaving him and his disciples fleeing from him.
It begins with Peter stating he would “go to prison and to death” with Christ to Peter denying him three times.
The very people, the Pharisees, who were most concerned in abiding by the Law of Moses broke several of these laws in order to rid themselves of the man people were crying out to be their King, their Messiah.
What do all these contrasts mean? You may have been one who cheered him or you may have been one who yelled “Crucify him!”, you may have professed your undying love him one minute and then denied him the next, he may have been your closest friend and then when he needed you most you fled from him; whatever your relationship, “while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us”.
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