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    Insights: Easter: What the Bible Tells Us About the Easter Story
    Insights: Easter: What the Bible Tells Us About the Easter Story
    Insights: Easter: What the Bible Tells Us About the Easter Story
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    Insights: Easter: What the Bible Tells Us About the Easter Story

    By William Barclay

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    People know the often-told story of Easter so well that it is hard to hear or feel afresh the deep spiritual meaning of what Easter really means. William Barclay goes right back to the original Biblical texts and translates them, providing surprising and fascinating insights along the way. Readers are guaranteed to find new insight and a fresh unde
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSaint Andrew Press
    Release dateJan 25, 2013
    ISBN9780861537372
    Insights: Easter: What the Bible Tells Us About the Easter Story
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    William Barclay

    William Barclay (1907-1978) is known and loved by millions worldwide as one of the greatest Christian teachers of modern times. His insights into the New Testament, combined with his vibrant writing style, have delighted and enlightened readers of all ages for over half a century. He served for most of his life as Professor of Divinity at the University of Glasgow, and wrote more than fifty books--most of which are still in print today. His most popular work, the Daily Study Bible, has been translated into over a dozen languages and has sold more than ten million copies around the world.

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      Insights - William Barclay

      The coming of the King

      Mark 11:1–6

      When they were coming near to Jerusalem, to Bethphage and to Bethany, Jesus despatched two of his disciples, and said to them, ‘Go into the village opposite you, and as soon as you come into it, you will find tethered there a colt, on which no man has ever yet sat. Loose it and bring it to me. And if anyone says to you, Why are you doing this? say, The Lord needs it, and immediately he will send it.’ And they went away and they found the colt tethered, outside a door, on the open street, and they loosed it. And some of those who were standing by said to them, ‘What are you doing loosing this colt?’ They said to them what Jesus had told them to say, and they let them go.

      WE have come to the last stage of the journey. There had been the time of withdrawal around Caesarea Philippi in the far north. There had been the time in Galilee. There had been the stay in the hill country of Judaea and in the regions beyond Jordan. There had been the road through Jericho. Now comes Jerusalem.

      We have to note something without which the story is almost unintelligible. When we read the first three gospels we get the idea that this was actually Jesus’ first visit to Jerusalem. They are concerned to tell the story of Jesus’ work in Galilee. We must remember that the gospels are very short. Into their short compass is crammed the work of three years, and the writers were bound to select the things in which they were interested and of which they had special knowledge. And when we read the Fourth Gospel we find Jesus frequently in Jerusalem ( John 2:13, 5:1, 7:10). We find in fact that he regularly went up to Jerusalem for the great feasts.

      There is no real contradiction here. The first three gospels are specially interested in the Galilaean ministry, and the fourth in the Judaean. In fact, moreover, even the first three have indications that Jesus was not infrequently in Jerusalem. There is his close friendship with Martha and Mary and Lazarus at Bethany, a friendship which speaks of many visits. There is the fact that Joseph of Arimathaea was his secret friend. And above all there is Jesus’ saying in Matthew 23:37 that often he would have gathered together the people of Jerusalem as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings but they were unwilling. Jesus could not have said that unless there had previously been more than one appeal which had met with a cold response.

      This explains the incident of the colt. Jesus did not leave things until the last moment. He knew what he was going to do and long ago he had made arrangements with a friend. When he sent forward his disciples, he sent them with a password that had been prearranged – ‘The Lord needs it now.’ This was not a sudden, reckless decision of Jesus. It was something to which all his life had been building up.

      Bethphage and Bethany were villages near Jerusalem. Very probably Bethphage means house of figs and Bethany means house of dates. They must have been very close because we know from the Jewish law that Bethphage was one of the circle of villages which marked the limit of a Sabbath day’s journey, that is, less than a mile, while Bethany was one of the recognized lodging places for pilgrims to the Passover when Jerusalem was

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