Entering Jerusalem

 John’s Gospel informs us of the three Passover feasts that Jesus celebrated during His public ministry. The first Pascha was associated with the purification of the temple (cf. 2,13-25), the second was the bread (cf. 6,4), and the third Pascha of Jesus’ death and resurrection (the cf. eg 12,1; 13,1) ) became “his” great Pasha and the basis of the Christian celebration of Easter, the Pasch of Christians. There are only one Pasch in the synoptic – the Pasch of the Cross and the Resurrection. Jerusalem. In geographic terms, this is also “output”. Lake Gennesaret is located approximately 200 meters below sea level and Jerusalem at an average altitude of 760 meters. All three synopticists speak of the stages of this ascent, which are Jesus’ three predictions of suffering. Simultaneously, they indicate the inner ascension that took place during the outward journey: ascending to the temple, a place which, according to the Book of Deuteronomy, God chose to “dwell in his name” (12,11; 14,23).The last goal of this “ascent of Jesus” is to sacrifice himself on the cross, which is the culmination of the Old Testament sacrifices. This is the output that the Hebrews describe as climbing into a stall that is not made by This ascendance before the very face of God leads through the cross – it is an ascent to “love to the end” (cf. John 13: 1), which is the true peak of God.
The immediate destination of the pilgrimage of Jesus is the holy city of Jerusalem with its temple and the “Jewish Passover” as John calls it (cf. Jn 2:13). Jesus went on a journey with his twelve disciples, Evangelists Matthew and Mark tell us that when departing from Jericho Jesus followed the “great crowd” (Mt 20:29; Mark 10:46). The expectation of what was to come was intensified at this last stage, thanks to an event that brought Jesus back into the field of vision.