FULFILLMENT

Matthew 21:1–14 (The Living Bible)

 

      As Jesus and the disciples approached Jerusalem, and were near the town of Bethphage on the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of them into the village ahead.

       ²“Just as you enter,” he said, “you will see a donkey tied there, with its colt beside it. Untie them and bring them here. ³If anyone asks you what you are doing, just say, ‘The Master needs them,’ and there will be no trouble.”
       ⁴This was done to fulfill the ancient prophecy, ⁵“Tell Jerusalem her King is coming to her, riding humbly on a donkey’s colt!”
 

Zechariah 9:9 (The Living Bible)

⁹“Rejoice greatly, O my people! Shout with joy! For look—your King is coming! He is the Righteous One, the Victor! Yet he is lowly, riding on a donkey’s colt!

 

⁶The two disciples did as Jesus said, ⁷and brought the animals to him and threw their garments over the colt for him to ride on. ⁸And some in the crowd threw down their coats along the road ahead of him, and others cut branches from the trees and spread them out before him.

        ⁹Then the crowds surged on ahead and pressed along behind, shouting, “God bless King David’s Son!” . . . “God’s Man is here!” . . . “Bless him, Lord!” . . . “Praise God in highest heaven!”
 

Psalm 118:26 (NASB95)

²⁶  Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord;

We have blessed you from the house of the Lord.

 

      ¹⁰The entire city of Jerusalem was stirred as he entered. “Who is this?” they asked.
       ¹¹And the crowds replied, “It’s Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth up in Galilee.”
       ¹²Jesus went into the Temple, drove out the merchants, and knocked over the money changers’ tables and the stalls of those selling doves.
       ¹³“The Scriptures say my Temple is a place of prayer,” he declared, “but you have turned it into a den of thieves.”

Isaiah 56:7 (The Living Bible)

⁷I will bring them also to my holy mountain of Jerusalem and make them full of joy within my House of Prayer.

I will accept their sacrifices and offerings, for my Temple shall be called A House of Prayer for All People”!

       ¹⁴And now the blind and crippled came to him, and he healed them there in the Temple.   ¹⁵But when the chief priests and other Jewish leaders saw these wonderful miracles and heard even the little children in the Temple shouting, “God bless the Son of David,” they were disturbed and indignant and asked him, “Do you hear what these children are saying?”
      ¹⁶“Yes,” Jesus replied. “Didn’t you ever read the Scriptures? For they say, ‘Even little babies shall praise him!’ ”

Psalm 8:3 (Tanakh)

³From the mouths of infants and sucklings

You have founded strength on account of Your foes,

to put an end to enemy and avenger.