Luke 19:28

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Luke 19:28-40

We have here the same account of Christ's riding in some sort of triumph (such as it was) into Jerusalem which we had before in Matthew and Mark; let us therefore here only observe, I. Jesus Christ was forward and willing to suffer and die for us. He went forward, bound in the spirit, to Jerusalem, knowing very well the things that should befal him there, and yet he went before, ascending up to Jerusalem, Luke 19:28. He was the foremost of the company, as if he longed to be upon the spot,... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Luke 19:28-40

19:28-40 When Jesus had said these things, he went on ahead on the way up to Jerusalem. When he had come near Bethphage and Bethany, which is near the mount called the Mount of Olives, he despatched two of his disciples. "Go to the village opposite," he said. "As you come into it, you will find tethered a colt upon which no man has ever sat. Loose it and bring it here. And if any one asks you, 'Why are you loosing this colt?' you will say, 'The Lord needs it.'" Those who had been despatched... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 19:28

And when he had thus spoken ,.... When he had delivered the above parable, in order to remove the prejudices of his disciples, and the multitude, concerning a temporal kingdom, and to give them true notions of his own kingdom, and the case of the Jewish nation: he went before ; his disciples: he was the foremost of them in the journey; he proceeded at the head of them, with great cheerfulness and eagerness: ascending up to Jerusalem ; through the lower lands of Judea, to the city of... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 19:28

He went before - Joyfully to anticipate his death, say some. Perhaps it means that he walked at the head of his disciples; and that he and his disciples kept on the road before other companies who were then also on their way to Jerusalem, in order to be present at the feast. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 19:28

Eagerness in the upward path. "He went before, ascending up to Jerusalem." "To go to Corinth" once meant to give way to dissipation. What did it mean to "go to Jerusalem"? To the Jews generally it meant to go to some sacred service, to visit the temple of Jehovah, to enter the sacred precincts where sacrifice was offered to God. To Jesus Christ, now, it meant to go on to martyrdom and to death. But still to go thither was to "go up," was to "ascend, and in his progress to that sacred city... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 19:28-38

Christ's royalty. Something like a royal procession is here described. On the foal of an ass, on which it comported as well with Oriental ideas of honour as with Christian ideas of peace that he should ride, the "King came, meek," but not without attention and acclaim, into Jerusalem. A large company of the curious, the devout, and even the enthusiastic, welcomed him as "the King that came in the Name of the Lord." At last, thought his disciples, his hour is come; at last their... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 19:28-44

From Jericho to Jerusalem. The last glimpse which we obtain of Moses presents him wending his way up the slope of Mount Nebo, thence to give one fond gaze towards the land he might not enter, and, having so done, then to lay himself down and die. Imagination has often attempted to portray the working of the great lawgiver's mind, the emotion of his heart, the thoughts which must have crowded on him as he took that last solitary journey to the sepulchre which no man must know, in which the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 19:28-48

Jesus enters Jerusalem as King Messiah ( Luke 19:29-44 ). His work in the temple ( Luke 19:45-48 ). St. Luke here passes over in silence the events which happened after the episode at the house of Zacchaeus at Jericho and the speaking the great parable of "the pounds." This parable may have been spoken in the house of Zacchaeus before leaving Jericho, but it seems better to place it somewhere in the course of the walk from Jericho to Bethany, a distance of some twelve miles. St. John... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 19:28-48

The advent of the humble King. To illustrate still more thoroughly the character of his kingdom as one not of ostentation and worldly glory, but of humility, our Lord directed two of his disciples to procure for him a colt, the untrained foal of an ass, that he might ride into Jerusalem thereon. The marvellous way in which the ass was lent to him indicated preternatural knowledge. Upon this colt, then, he sat, and passed amid the hosannas of the people into the sacred city. But his... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Luke 19:28-39

See the notes at Matthew 21:1-16. read more

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