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No entry exists in Forerunner Commentary for John 12:12.
John 12:12-16
Excerpted from: Jesus in the Feasts (Part Three): Divine KingJohn adds that He who comes in the name of the Lord is the King of Israel, a different title. He also notes that His disciples did not understand what had happened until after Jesus was glorified. What they failed to understand at this point in time was the spiritual significance of all Jerusalem proclaiming Jesus as Messiah.
They did not make the connection. They were still thinking physically of Jesus coming as a physical king. But He was being shown here by this wonderful ovation from the people, these loud noises, that He was Messiah, that He was King, and that He was God.
Their acclamation pointed to something far greater and grander than the coming of a physical king. This they did not get until later. What John is pointing us to is that they had to learn to think of Christ's royal authority and sovereignty in the sense shown later in the New Testament and in the prophecies of Revelation, that this One who was proclaimed King is King over all.
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