John 12:14

On the next day much people that were come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, For the exposition, see the notes at Luke 19:29....

14._And Jesus having found a young ass. _This part of the history is more minutely related by the other Evangelists, who tell us, that Christ _sent two of his disciples _to bring an ass, (Matthew 21:1; Mark 11:1; Luke 19:29.) John, who was the latest writer of all the Evangelists, reckoned it enough to notice briefly the substance of what had been stated by the rest; and, on this account, he leaves out many circumstances. An apparent contradiction, by which many persons are perplexed, is very easily removed. When Matthew says, that Christ sat upon a _she-ass and her colt_, we ought to view it as a synecdoche. (13) Some imagine that he sat first on the she-ass, and afterwards on her colt; and out of this conjecture they fr

12-19 Christ's riding in triumph to Jerusalem is recorded by all the evangelists. Many excellent things, both in the word and providence of God, disciples do not understand at their first acquaintance with the things of God. The right understanding of spiritual nature of Christ's kingdom, prevents our misapplying the Scriptures which speak of it....

See this passage explained in the notes at Matthew 21:1. Also Mark 11:1; Luke 19:29. John 12:16 WAS GLORIFIED - Was raised from the dead, and had ascended to heaven. John 12:17 BARE RECORD - Testified that he had raised him, and, as was natural, spread the report through the city. This excited much attention, and the people came out in multitudes to meet one who had power to work such miracles....

EXPOSITION The twelfth chapter neither belongs intrinsically to that which precedes nor to that which follows. It is a paragraph of high significance, as bearing on the construction of the Gospel. It is the transition between the public and the private ministry, the great pause between the two classes of manifestation forming the climax of the public ministry. III. CONSUMMATION OF THE PUBLIC MINISTRY. JOHN 12:1 1. _The feast of love and gratitude_. JOHN 12:1 JESUS THEREFORE, SIX DAYS BEFORE THE PASSOVER. Every preliminary of that solemn feast is memorable to our evangelist. The coincidence of the

AND JESUS, WHEN HE HAD FOUND A YOUNG ASS,.... Which he sent his disciples for, to a neighbouring village, and they brought to him: SAT THEREON, AS IT IS WRITTEN; in Zechariah 9:9 though some part of the words seems to be taken out of Isaiah 62:11; Matthew 21:5; and so Nonnus paraphrases it here, "that it might be fulfilled which Esaias said"....

John 12:1. _Then Jesus six days before the Passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead._ The days Christ was to spend upon the earth were getting to be very few so he paid another visit to that Bethany home where he was always so welcome, and more so than ever since he had raised Lazarus from the dead. John 12:2. _There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him. Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment._ All the members of the re-united family were present, Martha busy as usual with the domestic duties which fell to her share, La

CHAPTER 12 1. The Feast at Bethany. (John 12:1 .) 2. The Entrance into Jerusalem. (John 12:9 .) 3. The Inquiring Greeks and His Answer. (John 12:20 .) 4. His Final Words. (John 12:34 .) From the close of the previous chapter we learn that the Lord had gone with His disciples to a city called Ephraim. Six days before the Passover He came to Bethany again. They made Him a feast. Lazarus is especially mentioned as well as Martha, who served; Mary also was present with others who were of His disciples. It is a beautiful type of the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, when He will have His own with Him. Lazarus represents the Saint

THE TRIUMPHAL ENTRY. If the story of Lazarus is historical it is quite probable that people in Jerusalem should come out to Bethany, to satisfy themselves as to what would happen at the Feast, and that the ruling classes determined to deal with Lazarus as well as with Jesus. The Synoptic and Johannine accounts of the entry differ in details, but the account in our gospel is not in itself improbable. The Feast pilgrims, Galileans and possibly Judæ ans, but not Jerusalemites, learning from those who had been out to Bethany that Jesus intends to come up to the Feast, take palm branches (contrast Mark 11:8) and go out to meet Him. They greet Him with what was perhaps the ordinary greeting to strangers coming up to the Feast (Psalms 118:26), to which is added the King of Israel. The title refused in Gaiilee is press

AND JESUS, WHEN HE HAD FOUND. YOUNG ASS, SAT THEREON. This was Christ's triumphal entry into Jerusalem and the people expected him to become king at once. The _outside_ of this triumph was very mean. He rode upon an ass's _colt,_ which made no figure. This colt was _borrowed._ Christ went upon the water in. _borrowed_ boat, ate the Passover in. _borrowed_ chamber, was buried in. _borrowed_ sepulchre, and here rode on. _borrowed_ ass. He had no rich trappings, but only the garments of others.--_ Matthew Henry._...