The Question of the Day helps prepare you for next Sunday’s focus text in worship. These questions are posted here each day offering an opportunity for discussion. (Just click in the title of this post and you will be taken to the discussion window.) Try it out for a week and see how Jesus will use your time of pondering upon God’s word to deepen your faith.
Today’s question is: What did the disciples think as they watched this spectacle?
This week’s text for the Sunday of the Passion: Mark 11:1-11 (NRSV)
1When they were approaching Jerusalem, at Bethphage and Bethany,
near the Mount of Olives, [Jesus] sent two of his disciples 2and said to them, “Go into the village ahead of you, and
immediately as you enter it, you will find tied there a colt that has never
been ridden; untie it and bring it. 3If anyone says to you,
‘Why are you doing this?’ just say this, ‘The Lord needs it and will send it
back here immediately.’?” 4They went away and
found a colt tied near a door, outside in the street. As they were untying
it, 5some of the bystanders said to them, “What are
you doing, untying the colt?” 6They told them what
Jesus had said; and they allowed them to take it. 7Then they brought the colt to Jesus and threw their cloaks on
it; and he sat on it. 8Many people spread
their cloaks on the road, and others spread leafy branches that they had cut in
the fields. 9Then those who went ahead and those who
followed were shouting,
“Hosanna!
Blessed is the one who comes in
the name of the Lord!
10Blessed is the coming kingdom of our ancestor
David!
Hosanna in the highest heaven!”
11Then he entered Jerusalem and went into the temple; and when he had looked around at everything, as it was already late, he went out to Bethany with the twelve.
