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Appendixes To The Companion Bible
This Is Appendix 153 From The Companion Bible. Most "Harmonies" assume that because each Gospel records an entry of the Lord into Jerusalem the four accounts must be identical because they are similar: and therefore conclude that because they differ in certain particulars there are "discrepancies". Whereas, if we treat them in their chronological sequences, and have regard to the antecedent and consequent circumstances, the supposed discrepancies will disappear, and the similar, but diverse, expressions will be seen to be necessary to the different events. In this present case, one entry (Matthew 21:1-9) takes place before the other, which is recorded in (Mark 11:1-10, Luke 19:30-34, and John 12:12-15). 1. In Matthew the Lord had actually arrived at Bethphage. In Luke He "he was come nigh" (engisen); in Mark "they were approaching" (engizousin). 2. In Matthew the village lay just off the road (apenanti); in Luke and Mark it was below them, and opposite (Katenati). 3. In the former, two animals were sent for and used; in the latter, only one. 4. In the former, the prophecy of Zechariah 9:9,
which required the two animals, is said to have been fulfilled;
in latter, the prophecy was not said to be fulfilled, and only so much of
it is quoted (John 12:15)
as agrees with it.
5. The former seems to have been unexpected,
for "all the city was moved, saying, 'What is this?'
" (Matthew 21: The latter, therefore, was the great formal entry of the Lord, called "the Triumphal Entry", which took place on what is called "Palm Sunday". The first had special reference to the whole work of His mission. He came on the ass with its unbroken colt, the clothes being put some on one and some on the other, and the Lord sitting on "them" - the clothes (not on both beasts). He came to cleanse the Temple, and make His final presentation of the King and the Kingdom. But when He came on the one-an ass's colt-it was in judgment, to pronounce the doom on the city; and on the nation. When He appears again it will be to a nation which will then say (as the result Zechariah 12:10): "Blessed is He that cometh in the name of the Lord" (Matthew 23:39). For the events of the "six days before the Passover", see Appendix 156; and the note on the various passages. |
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