Just king coming!
Someday I will appoint
an honest king
from the family of David,
a king who will be wise
and rule with justice. ~ Jeremiah 23:5 (CEV)
In front of Jesus and behind him, people went along shouting,
“Hooray!
God bless the one
who comes
in the name of the Lord!
God bless the coming kingdom
of our ancestor David.
Hooray for God
in heaven above!” ~ Mark 11:9-10 (CEV)
KEY IDEA:
Jesus is the honest, wise, and just king from the family of David.
PRAYER:
Hooray for you, King Jesus! You are the one who has come to make things right. You have come to establish a whole new kind of kingdom. Hooray! Even though I'm not reliable enough, you have invited me to join your team. I know that I can be a good citizen of your kingdom because with your help I'm going to follow your lead. Amen.
TRANSLATIONS
ABP = Authorized Boydston Paraphrase — my own freestyle biblical adaptation — somewhere between paraphrase, commentary, and sermon
CEB = Common English Bible (©2011, the Common English Bible)
CEV = Contemporary English Version (©1995, American Bible Society)
MSG = The Message (©1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson)
NIRV = New International Reader's Version (©1996, 1998, Biblica)
NIV = New International Version (©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011, Biblica)
NLT = New Living Translation (©1996, 2004, 2007, 2013, Tyndale House Foundation)
