TRIAMPHANT ENTRY INTO JERUSALEM (LUKE19:20-30)

OBJECTIVES
1. Give an account of Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem.

2. Explain the significance of Jesus entry into Jerusalem.

3. Explain the symbolism of the colt, mount Olivet, spreading

the garments and the branches.

4. Explain the moral lessons drawn from Jesus triumphal

entry into Jerusalem

5. Analyze the characteristics of Jesus and that of the

Pharisees.

INTRODUCTION
Explain that the triumphant entry took place a few days before
the last supper (it is celebrated as Palm Sunday) and it marked
the beginning of the passion week. (passion refers to the time
of his suffering, death and resurrection). Teacher will then take
students through the events of the Holy week:
EVENTS OF THE HOLY WEEK

❖ Triumphant entry into Jerusalem (Luke19:28-40)

❖ The last supper (luke22:7-23)

❖ Arrest and Trials (22:39-23:1-25)

❖ Crucifixion (23:26-42)

❖ Death and Resurrection, post resurrection appearances

(23:44- 24:49)

❖ Ascension (24:50-53 to Acts1:2-11)

SUMMARY OF THE TRIAMPHAL ENTRY INTO JERUSALEM

(LUKE19:28-40)

❖ Jews underwent pilgrimage to Jerusalem as a holy place

❖ Jesus went to Jerusalem and when he drew closer to

Beth’phage Bethany at Mount Olivet he sent two of his
disciples to fetch a tied colt

❖ Told them if anyone questioned they should tell them the

Lord has need of it
 ❖ They threw their garments on colt and sat on it

❖ Multitude praised God with a loud voice

❖ Pharisees asked Jesus to rebuke them

❖ Jesus said stones would cry out if they stopped

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE TRIAMPHAL ENTRY

❖ Fulfilment of Old Testament prophesies: the prophesy

said “rejoice greatly oh daughter of Jerusalem! Shout
aloud oh daughter of Jerusalem! Lo your king comes to
you triumphant and victorious is he, humble and riding on
a colt”.

❖ A revelation of Jesus ‘identity: this is because as it was

prophesied in the above prophesy by Zachariah Jesus
indeed entered Jerusalem riding on a donkey and the
masses laid their garments and shouted praises to him
“blessed is the king who cometh in the name of the Lord”.
(Vs38)
 ❖ Shows Jesus ‘humble nature: this is because Jesus chose
to enter Jerusalem riding on a donkey when normally kings
would ride on a war horse and chariots. Donkeys were
considered humble animals so Jesus ‘choice showed his
humility.

❖ Proved that he was the king of peace: this is because

Jesus solemnly entered Jerusalem riding on a donkey
instead of a horse. This showed that he was coming in
peace. If he could have come riding on a horse, then he
would have been portrayed as a war waging king.

SYMBOLS AND THEIR MEANING

❖ Colt: symbolizes humility, peace and purity

❖ Mount Olivet: symbolizes the fulfilment of the Old

Testament prophesy in Zachariah14:4 that the Messiah
would appear on Mount Olivet. For Jews this mountain is
holy place.

❖ Spreading of the garments: was symbolic to the people

submitting under the authority of Jesus. They were
acknowledging him as their king as this was done in the Old
Testament when an individual was made king.
❖ Palm tree branches: symbolized victory and honor because
in Jewish culture palm branches were used during the
coronation of a king.

MORAL LESSONS

❖ Christians need to be humble

❖ Be peaceful at all times

❖ Important for them to be bold on matters of their

faith.

THE CHARACTER OF JESUS

❖ Humble

❖ Peaceful

❖ Bold

❖ specific
THE CHARACTER OF THE PHARISEES

❖ Hypocritical: they shouted that Jesus was king even

though they knew that he was not the king they desired,
they desired a king who would deliver them from the
Roman rule.

❖ Jealous: they were also jealous of the attention Jesus was

getting.

❖ Spiritually blind: The Pharisees asked Jesus to rebuke the

people who were singing praises to Jesus calling him King.
They failed to understand the time and who Jesus was.

ASSESSMENT
a) i) Give an account of Jesus triumphal entry into Jerusalem.
[6]

ii) Explain any moral lessons drawn from Jesus’ triumphal

entry into Jerusalem. [6]

b) Do you think Jesus triumphal entry into Jerusalem proved

that he was indeed the Messiah? Explain your answer
showing that you have thought about different points of
view. [8]
 CONFLICTS AND OPPOSITION OF JESUS (LUKE20:1-40)

RATIONALE
❖ To teach pupils about the opposition and conflicts that
Jesus faced from the Jewish leaders and how he dealt with
them.

OBJECTIVES

1. Describe the areas of conflict between Jesus, the chief

priests and the Sadducees, which are:

a) Question about the authority of Jesus

b) Question about paying taxes to Caesar

2. Explain the significance of the conflicts between Jesus and

the Jewish religious leaders.

3. Explain how Jesus dealt with his conflict with the Jewish
Religious leaders.

4. Explain moral lessons drawn from the conflicts

INTRODUCTION

❖ Recap on the previous lesson on the earlier conflicts Jesus

had with the Religious leaders where they criticized him
for claiming to forgive sins, mixing with sinners, not fasting
and not keeping the Sabbath.

❖ In the later conflicts we will focus on Jesus interaction with

the Chief Priests and the Sadducees where they asked him
questions to try to trap him so that he could be arrested
by the Romans.

THE AREAS OF CONFLICT JESUS HAD WITH THE JEWISH

RELIGIOUS LEADERS

1. Narrate the conflict on the question about the authority

of Jesus (Luke20:1-8)

READ FROM THE BIBLE

❖ Question: The Chief priests wanted to know the source of
Jesus authority for under whose authority was he teaching
doing all the things he was doing.

❖ Why the Chief Priests asked Jesus this question?

a) They wanted to trap Jesus to say that he was teaching

under his own authority: this is because if Jesus could
have said he was teaching and performing miracles under
his own authority then the Sadducees could have
condemned him and ridicule him.

b) They also wanted to trap Jesus to say that his authority

came from God: This is because if he could have said he
was working under God’s authority and then they could
have charged him with blasphemy. (claiming to possess
power from God)

How Jesus answered the question

Jesus answered the question with a question, he asked

them whether they thought John’s baptism was from
heaven or men?

NB: Jesus was not trying to evade the question but instead
he used the question to explain who he is and expose the
hypocrisy of the leaders.
 ❖ If they could have said John’s baptism was from heaven,
then they would be forced to admit that Jesus was the
Messiah as he was proclaimed by John the Baptist.

❖ If they could have said it was from men, then all the
people would be angry because they were convinced that
John was a prophet.

2.Relate the conflict on the question about paying taxes to

Caesar (Luke20:19-26)

READ FROM THE BIBLE

❖ Question: The Chief Priests bribed some men to ask Jesus

if it was acceptable to pay taxes to Caesar.

Explain why the Pharisees asked this question

a) They wanted Jesus to say the Jews should pay taxes to

Caesar: this is because if he could have said Jews should
continue paying taxes many of his supporters would
have been very angry and Jesus could have lost
popularity. More so because they did not want to pay
the heavy taxes imposed by the Roman emperor.
 b) They also wanted to trap him to say they should not
pay taxes to Caesar: this is because if Jesus could have
said that they should not pay taxes then they would
have reported him to the leaders for rebelling against
the emperor by advising the people to stop paying taxes
as required by the emperor.

How Jesus answered the question

Jesus answered their question with another question, he

asked them whose image was pictured on the coin? They
responded that Caesar’s. Jesus then responded by telling them
that they should give Caesar what belongs to Caesar and give
God What belongs to God.

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE CONFLICT JESUS HAD WITH THE

JEWISH RELIGIOUS LEADERS

❖ They were the fulfilment of the New Testament

prophesies about the Messiah: this is because in Luke9:22
the Bible says “the son of man must suffer many things
and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and
scribes…” this was said by Jesus himself to his disciples
after asking them who they think he is.
 ❖ They help equip Christians with skills as to how to deal
with conflicts: this is because through the conflicts we
learn we learn a more effective way to deal with people
when they ask questions to trap us into saying things that
would get us into trouble with the law. Jesus was vigilant
enough to see behind the hypocrisy of the Jewish leaders.

HOW JESUS DEALT WITH HIS CONFLICTS WITH THE JEWISH

RELIGIOUS LEADERS

❖ He answered a question with a question: this is evident

when the Sadducees questioned Jesus about the source of
his authority. He wisely answered with a question that the
Chief priests could not even answer because of fear of
getting themselves into trouble.

❖ He used his understanding of the people and their

situations: This is evident when the Chief Priests tried to
trap Jesus by bribing people to ask Jesus if it okay for
them to pay taxes. Jesus understood the people he was
speaking to and their situation where they were expected
to pay heavy taxes. He then wisely answered by making
sure he did not lose his popularity at the same time not
getting himself into trouble with the authorities.
 ❖ Quoting the scriptures: this is because Jesus quoted the
scripture in the Old Testament to prove the authenticity.of
the resurrection. This helped the Jewish leaders to get
clarity that the resurrection was real.

MORAL LESSONS DRAWN FROM JESUS CONFLICT WITH THE

JEWISH RELIGIOUS LEADERS

❖ We learn that we need to be loyal to our leaders while

we remain responsible to God. This is because Jesus
emphasized that when he addressed the question on the
payment of taxes. He advised the people to give Caesar
what belongs to Caesar and give God what belongs to him.

❖ We learn that it is important for Christians to remain

calm and alert when resolving conflict: this is because
Jesus always paid attention to all the questions posed to
him and could easily identify the questions that were
meant to trap him. Eg when they asked him if they should
pay taxes to Caesar.

❖ We also learn never to be confrontational but respect

people’s different opinions: this is evident from Jesus who
did not even once lost his temper or had a confrontation
with the Jewish leaders even though they continuously set
traps for him. EG when they asked him about his authority.
ASSESSMENT

a) i) Narrate the conflict between Jesus and the Jewish

leaders on the question about Jesus’authority. [6]

ii) Explain the techniques used by Jesus to deal with his

conflicts with the Jewish religious leaders. [6]

CONCLUSION:

In today’s lesson we covered the conflicts on:

a) the authority of Jesus
b) question about the payment of taxes to Caesar

❖ significance of the conflicts

❖ moral lessons drawn from the conflict

❖ techniques used by Jesus to deal with the conflicts

CONFLICT AND OPPOSITION OF JESUS (LUKE20:1-40)

Learning materials
❖ Learners book
❖ RVS Bible
❖ Notebook and pen

OBJECTIVES
By the end of the lesson you must be able to do the following

1. Relate the areas of conflict between Jesus, the Chief

Priests and Sadducees, that is:

a) The conflict about resurrection

b) The conflict about the Messiah

2. Explain how Jesus responded to the conflicts.

3. Analyse the character of Jesus during the conflicts

4. Explain any moral lessons drawn from the conflicts.

INTRODUCTION

1.Give an account on the conflict about resurrection

(Luke20:27-40)

READ FROM THE BIBLE

❖ Question: they asked him if one woman who married her

husband’s brother who then also died and then married
another brother who also died and so on until she has
married all seven of them and then died herself. If they
were all resurrected whose wife is she going to be?

NB: Sadducees did not believe in life after death, spirits or

angels. They asked the question simply to prove that the
idea of resurrection was stupid.
Explain how Jesus answered this question

❖ Answer: Jesus answered the question in three parts:

I) He said our bodies would be different from how

they are now that we are alive. He reminded them
that life after resurrection would be different in the
sense that those who are husband and wife on earth
will have no special relationship in heaven. (no
marriage)
II) Those who were worthy of being resurrected would
be like angels and are sons of God. This was to
remind the chief priests that life in heaven was
eternal and those resurrected would share would
share the same characteristics angels are
experiencing now.
III) He then quoted a scripture from the Torah. (The
Sadducees accepted the Torah as their Holy Book).
This was to prove the reality of the resurrection. He
quoted that ‘even Moses from the burning bush he
called the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and
Jacob and God is not a God of the dead but the living.
(vs 38)
2.Question about the Messiah (Luke20:41-47)

This time Jesus was the one who asked the religious leaders a
question he asked them to interpret the scripture in Psalm 110.
This was after he had patiently answered their questions.

Question: is the Messiah David’s son?

Why Jesus asked the Jewish religious leaders this question

❖ The Sadducees were misunderstanding in identifying the

Messiah with the son of David. This is because the mostly
widely received title of the Messiah was the one used
throughout Israel at the time ‘Jesus the son of David’
found in the first verse of the New Testament.

❖ Jesus wanted to clarify the question in the religious

leader’s minds “how can the son of man be both the son
of David and the Lord of David at the same time?
The answer: Jesus quoted Psalm110:1 where David had
referred to the coming Messiah as “my Lord”. Jesus explained
that as God (Jesus divine nature) he is the Lord of David and in
the flesh (human nature) he was the son of David, this because
Jesus’s earthly parents were descendants of David.
To try to deal with their unbelief and their ignorance Jesus then
asked them how can then David call his own son Lord.

HOW JESUS DEALT WITH HIS CONFLICTS WITH THE JEWISH

RELIGIOUS LEADERS

❖ Quoting the scriptures: we see this when Jesus dealt with

the conflict about the resurrection and the question about
Jesus’messiahship. Jesus quoted the Old Testament EG
Psalm and Exodus in supporting his arguments before the
Sadducees

❖ He read the minds of those around him: this is because

after Jesus had patiently answered the questions of the
Chief priests he knew that he still needed to clear his
identity as the Messiah to them especially because they
thought of the Messiah as the son of David.
MORAL LESSONS DRAWN FROM JESUS CONFLICT WITH THE
JEWISH RELIGIOUS LEADERS

❖ We learn to use the scriptures at our disposal to deal

with conflicts: this is because Jesus knowledge of the
scriptures helped him to answer all questions the
Sadducees had lined up for him to the point that they had
nothing to say but marvel at his answers. “teacher you
have answered well” (Luke20:39).

❖ We learn never to leave some questions hanging but to

address even those questions that are not asked but we
know that they are there: this is because the question
about if the Messiah was the son of David or David’s Lord.
Jesus because of his wisdom was able to bring that
question up and answered it to the satisfaction of those
around him.

JESUS CHARACTER DURING THE CONFLICTS

❖ Calm: did not lose his temper, was not confrontational

❖ Good listener: he paid attention to all the questions and

answered every single one of them.
 ❖ Considerate: he understood the situation the people he
was speaking to were in. He knew that the people had a
responsibility to their government to pay their taxes as
required by the state.

❖ Bold: he mocked the Sadducees’ beliefs about angels and

the afterlife, he showed them how wrong they are for not
believing in resurrection.

ASSESSMENT

a) i) Narrate the conflict Jesus had with the Jewish leaders on

the question on resurrection. [6]

ii) Explain how Jesus dealt with the conflicts he had with
the Jewish leaders. [6]

b) Do you think the conflicts Jesus had with the Chief Priests
and the Sadducees could have been avoided? Explain your
answer showing that you have thought about different
points of view. [8]

CONCLUSION