Palm Sunday 2023

Palm Sunday

Reading I - Is 50:4-7

Reading II - Phil 2:6-11

Gospel - Mt 26:14—27:66

 

Jesus spoke seven times while hanging on the cross. Two of those times he quoted psalms.  Jesus needed people to know that His crucifixion was a plan eternally in the making.  This was the plan was a rescue mission for our salvation.

 

Jesus quotes Psalm 22 and King David from one thousand years prior when he said “My God, my God why have you forsaken me?”  But what else did David say?  “They have pierced my hands and my feet.  They have cast lots for my clothes.”  David didn’t experience that, but this prophecy for his descendent a thousand years was accurate. 

 

Yes, Christ was trying to tell us that this was part of Gods plan to save us and to set us free.  Jesus then quotes Psalm 31 when he says “Into your hands Lord I commend my spirit.”  Jesus’ life was not being taken away but willingly given in accordance with Gods plan.  Gods Son will die that we might live.  Let us live for Him.