Home Group Study Questions // March 28th

Palm Sunday Home Group Questions: The Blessing of Surrender

Luke 19:38 — “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!”

 

Read Luke 19:37-48

  1. What contrasts do you notice in this Palm Sunday text? What things seem like extreme opposites?
  2. One irony from this scripture is the greeting that they proclaim of Jesus and the fate that is coming before Him. How do you understand Jesus as King, or the statement “comes in the name of the Lord”?
  3. How can we understand the term Blessed in their greeting statement?
  4. What would be the natural response of the Roman authorities to someone coming into their city, proclaimed as King? What would be the human response of the Jewish authorities if someone cleared out the temple and referred to them as a den of thieves?
  5. In Luke 19:37-40, one of the contrasts is the loud praise and rejoicing of the disciples, as compared to the instruction of the Pharisees to, “rebuke your disciples.” What do we praise loudly? Is our praise misdirected?
  6. In Luke 19:41-42, Jesus weeps over Jerusalem. Why is He weeping? What things would make for peace? Why are they hidden?
  7. In Luke 19:43-44, Jesus prophecies the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D.. How does that contrast the title that they greeted Jesus with, “Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!” or His statement, “Would that you… had known… the things that make for peace.”
  8. Luke 19:45-46 describes the clearing of the temple and the statement “‘My house shall be a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a den of robbers.” When have we made the sacred things of God commonplace or even an evil place? How does this relate to the temple of our own bodies?
  9. A final contrast stands out in Luke 19:47-48, where Jesus is teaching in the temple, and the leaders want to destroy Him, but the people were hanging on His words. When do we pick and choose what we want to hear from God’s Word?
  10. Is the triumphal entry into Jerusalem a victory parade or a surrender to earthly authorities? Why or why not?