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This week, celebrating the most important act that has happened in the human history, we are going to speak about the clearest event for the humanity of seeing the one who was truly Jesus. In Mateo chapter 21 we read that Jesus was coming on returning to Jerusalem from Jericho, for the celebration of the Easter. But before speaking about this topic, we are going to go away to the Ancient Testament to understand that it was meaning the Easter.

In the Exodus book, we read like the people of Israel it was in the ground of Egypt, where it was oppressed by the Pharaoh and his people. Israel was a slave, and therefore it was set to realize the works forced in foreign ground. The God's people cries out and the book says to us that Jehovah listened to his prayers and capture to a man of the people of Israel to liberate them. This man was a Cradle.

Once Cradle was instituído for God like the one that was going to guide Israel towards his freedom, God says to Cradle that he should speak with Pharaoh and should ask him for the liberation of Jacob's people. After several occasions, Pharaoh refuses to liberate them, and God says to Pharaoh across Cradle that of not liberating them, it would kill to all the first-born ones of Egypt, both of men and of cattle.

Pharaoh refuses to liberate them, but God warns him your people, that this day, they should take a lamb and sacrifice it, and would place his blood in two posts and the lintel of the houses of Israel, and then they will eat the lamb, which had to be a lamb without any defect, and be prepared to go out of the ground of Egypt (Exodus 12: 1-12).

This day, it should be remembered by all the generations, and by it every year, in the first month (Nisán), on the tenth day, they had to take the lamb and for four days they would take care of it, and to the fourth day they would sacrifice it, would eat his meat, and with his blood they would mark his houses. With this, God was ordering the Israelites, to remember the day in which they were liberated of Egypt.

In Mateo, then, we read that Jesus was coming from Jericho to Jerusalem to celebrate the Easter, on the tenth of the first Jewish month (Nisán). But before entering the city, Jesus him orders his disciples to go to the contiguous village and a donkey and a donkey to take and that they to be brought to Him

- “saying to them: Go to the village that is opposite you, and then
you will find a tied donkey, and a donkey with her; untie it, and
bring them to me. And if someone will say something to you, say: The Gentleman needs them; and then he will send them. ”-Mateo 21: 2-3

Jesus mounts the donkey and enters Jerusalem continued by a big multitude, which was following him from Jericho, and had attended the miracles that it had done. This big multitude was shouting happily, was shaking palms, which were meaning freedom for Israel, and were throwing his clothes opposite to Jesus's way, which was done to the royalty (Lucas 19: 28-40).Mientras Jesus was lowering the Mount of the Olive trees, the Pharisees who were in a mount, they were attending this incredible fact. Incredible Porqué? Let's see Zacarías 9:9 to be able to answer this question.

“Be glad very much, daughter of Zion; it gives exhilaration voices, daughter of Jerusalem; I have
here your king will come to you, I joust and savior, humbly, and riding on
a donkey, on a donkey donkey son.” Zacarías 9: 9

We must realize very well that Jesus knew which it was the God's plan, and the Pharisees, as He, the Ancient Testament was known perfectly. Not only it was known, but it was known about memory. Therefore, Jesus did not take the donkey to make him see to the world that was humble, but to make him see to the world that He was the Messiah. To make him see the Pharisees, who on having attended this spectacle (the big multitude shouting: Hosana! Hosana! and to the savior of Israel mounted in a donkey) that He was that of the one that the writing was prophesying. For reasons that are not very clear in the Bible, the Pharisees, they could not believe what happened, since in his mind, although the sacred writing was saying another thing, the Messiah would come in a white horse and it would be that that would liberate them of the oppression that they were suffering in this moment for the people of Israel. The Jewish writings, specially, in the Talmud, in the book of Sanhedrín 8, write the ancient ones that the Messiah would come to Israel in a white horse if the people was prepared, but it would come in a donkey if the people was not prepared (which we know was what happened).

It was clear that they were attending what Zacarías had written hundreds of years earlier about the arrival of the Messiah, but they did not want to open his eyes. In Lucas we read that these Pharisees come to Jesus and say to him that he should be quiet to those who follow him, which he says to them that they should stop singing: Blessed the king who comes in the name of the Gentleman; peace in the sky and glory in the heights! (Lucas 19: 38). Pero Jesus answers them that if they should not shout, then the rocks would shout for them.

That is to say Christ said to them that nothing could prevent this day from being shown real Jesus, that one that had been prophesied by the prophets of the Ancient Testament, the savior of Israel and the blessing of all the nations, but as they were saying also the Hebrew writing, because they were not prepared, they could not see that his king was coming to them in a donkey.