Easter Week 5: Easter Prophecies Fulfilled – 3
March 27, 2021The lowly he sets on high
March 27, 2021Rejoice greatly, Daughter Zion! Shout, Daughter Jerusalem! See, your king comes to you, righteous and victorious, lowly and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey. … They took palm branches and went out to meet him, shouting, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Blessed is the king of Israel!” Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, as it is written: “Do not be afraid, Daughter Zion; see, your king is coming, seated on a donkey’s colt.”
Even my close friend, someone I trusted, one who shared my bread, has turned against me. … Then Judas Iscariot, one of the Twelve, went to the chief priests to betray Jesus to them.
I told them, “If you think it best, give me my pay; but if not, keep it.” So they paid me thirty pieces of silver. … “What are you willing to give me if I deliver him over to you?” So they counted out for him thirty pieces of silver.
And the LORD said to me, “Throw it to the potter”—the handsome price at which they valued me! So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them to the potter at the house of the LORD. … So they decided to use the money to buy the potter’s field as a burial place for foreigners. That is why it has been called the Field of Blood to this day.”
With the payment he received for his wickedness, Judas bought a field; there he fell headlong, his body burst open and all his intestines spilled out. Everyone in Jerusalem heard about this, so they called that field in their language Akeldama, that is, Field of Blood. “For,” said Peter, “it is written in the Book of Psalms: ‘May his place be deserted; let there be no one to dwell in it,’ and, ‘May another take his place of leadership’.”
Ze 9:9, Jh 12:13-15, Ps 118:25; Ps 41:9, Mr 14:9; Ze 11:12, Mt 26:15; Ze 11:13, Mt 27:7-10; Ac 1:18-20, Ps 69:25, Ps 109:8
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