stirring the pot from the start- (Luke 19:28-20:26)
It doesn't take Jesus long to start mixing things up with the crowds who had welcomed him with praise and fanfare as he entered Jerusalem. When they raised palms and shouted Hosanna hoping he was their long expected savior they didn't know he was coming to save them from themselves.
Your nationalism and defense efforts won't save you he said.
Your religiosity and purity of heart won't make things right with God either.
"Who do you think you are speaking to us that way?" they demanded.
In his typically hidden/plain truth manner Jesus provides his answer with a story that contains his plan for redemption through rejection.
"If the trouble maker is going to be coy with us, perhaps we can trick him and cause him to stumble."
But he would not stumble. His eyes were set on a rocky knob of a hill that he would climb at the end of the week.
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