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FEBRUARY 1
He delivered me because He delighted
in me.
Proverbs 6:6–11
21:9 Hosanna. This transliterates the Hebrew
6 Go to the ant, you sluggard! expression which is translated “Save now” in
Consider her ways and be wise, Psalm 118:25. Blessed is He. This is an exact
7 Which, having no captain, quotation from v. 26 of the same psalm. This,
Overseer or ruler, along with the messianic title “Son of David,”
8 Provides her supplies in the summer, make it clear that the crowd was acknowledg-
And gathers her food in the harvest. ing Christ’s messianic claim. The date of this
9 How long will you slumber, O sluggard? entry was Sunday, 9 Nisan, A.D. 30, exactly 483
When will you rise from your sleep? years after the decree of Artaxerxes men-
10 A little sleep, a little slumber, tioned in Daniel 9:24–26.
A little folding of the hands to sleep—
11 So shall your poverty come on you like 10 And when He had come into Jerusalem, all
a prowler, the city was moved, saying, “Who is this?”
And your need like an armed man. 11 So the multitudes said, “This is Jesus, the
prophet from Nazareth of Galilee.”
12 Then Jesus went into the temple of God
and drove out all those who bought and sold
in the temple, and overturned the tables of the
6:6 ant…sluggard. See 30:25. The ant is an money changers and the seats of those who
example of industry, diligence, and planning sold doves. And He said to them, “It is written,
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(vv. 7, 8) and serves as a rebuke to a sluggard ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’
(a lazy one who lacks self-control). Folly sends but you have made it a ‘den of thieves.’ ”
a lazy man to learn from an ant (see 10:4,26; 14 Then the blind and the lame came to Him
12:24; 13:4; 15:19; 19:15; 20:4; 26:14–16). in the temple, and He healed them. But when
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the chief priests and scribes saw the wonder-
ful things that He did, and the children crying
Matthew 21:1–22
out in the temple and saying, “Hosanna to the
Now when they drew near Jerusalem, Son of David!” they were indignant and said
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21 and came to Bethphage, at the Mount of to Him, “Do You hear what these are saying?”
Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples, saying And Jesus said to them, “Yes. Have you
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to them, “Go into the village opposite you, and never read,
immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a
colt with her. Loose them and bring them to ‘Out of the mouth of babes
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Me. And if anyone says anything to you, you and nursing infants
shall say, ‘The Lord has need of them,’ and You have perfected praise’?”
immediately he will send them.” 17 Then He left them and went out of the city
4 All this was done that it might be fulfilled to Bethany, and He lodged there.
which was spoken by the prophet, saying: 18 Now in the morning, as He returned to the
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5 “Tell the daughter of Zion, city, He was hungry. And seeing a fig tree by
‘Behold, your King is coming to you, the road, He came to it and found nothing on
Lowly, and sitting on a donkey, it but leaves, and said to it, “Let no fruit grow
A colt, the foal of a donkey.’ ”
6 So the disciples went and did as Jesus com-
manded them. They brought the donkey and
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the colt, laid their clothes on them, and set Him 21:21 if you have faith and do not doubt.
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on them. And a very great multitude spread This presupposes that the thing requested is
their clothes on the road; others cut down actually God’s will—for only God-given faith is
branches from the trees and spread them on so doubt-free (see Mark 9:24). it will be done.
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the road. Then the multitudes who went before A miracle on such a cosmic scale was precise-
and those who followed cried out, saying: ly what the scribes and Pharisees wanted
Christ to do, but He always declined. Here, He
“Hosanna to the Son of David! was speaking figuratively about the immea-
‘Blessed is He who comes in the name surable power of God, unleashed in the lives
of the LORD!’ of those with true faith.
Hosanna in the highest!”
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