Jesus is the King.

This affirmation is really the united testimony of the entire New Testament, culminating in Revelation 17 and 19 where Jesus is called the Lord of lords and the King of kings. Several times in the Gospel of John, Jesus is worshiped or honored as King. Nathanael responded to Jesus, "You are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!"1 At another point, people wanted to physically seize him and make him their king by force!2

Jesus resisted their plebiscite at that time, but on the first Palm Sunday he seemed ready to acquiesce to their demands. He mounts the donkey’s colt and rides it to the general acclaim of the crowds. All the actions and words of this mass of people reveal their expectations of what they thought the "glory" of a king should be. First they took palm …