tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8215116066445385512.post2583340765797950536..comments2023-07-13T05:20:07.334-04:00Comments on Reflections from Broadneck Baptist: Taking It One Day at a TimeAbbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04823753643734462481noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8215116066445385512.post-56994258225987934852012-02-23T12:10:10.134-05:002012-02-23T12:10:10.134-05:00I love the idea that Mark (in words) rushes headlo...I love the idea that Mark (in words) rushes headlong and slows to a relative crawl for the final week of Jesus' life. Seems to fly in the face of maybe a common modern Christian tendency to want to rush through the uncomfortable introspection of Lent (what a downer..) to get to emotionality of Easter.<br /><br />When I think on your questions (why enter Jerusalem, at that time, in that way, at all...), I first think of all the famous statues of "great" leaders (mostly, men, in this case) on horseback, militantly surveying the surrounding fields, claiming it, etc. No really the same image or message if one is on a donkey, I think - and instead, borders on the comical (in the modern Western vision), despite the Zachariah passage. <br /><br />I think, though, that we tend to ascribe a kind of precognition to Jesus that probably wasn't there. I don't know if Jesus knew exactly what was going to happen, or what his entry would set into motion. Yes, the scripture seems to indicate that he knew there would be conflict - even physical - and that he faced his own death. But how this was all going to play out was, most likely, a mystery even to him and serves as a tremendous example of trust on his part in this "turning" towards the seat of power, Jerusalem. <br /><br />In reading the Mark passage, I wonder at the choice of words - a colt that has never been ridden. Does this have any significance in Jewish culture? Roman culture?Jeremyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03507874062503931824noreply@blogger.com