Did the Same People Shout “Hosanna” shout “Crucify?” a week later?

[ALAYMAN]

Easter is just around the corner, and I thought/hope this might be a slightly interesting thread on Christ's triumphal entry, and humanity's fickle religious nature.  Do you believe that the people who greeted Christ as King as He rode in on a donkey were the by and large the same folk who yelled "crucify him" very shortly after?  Or do you think that those were two differing groups?


An interesting read on the subject....

http://sbcvoices.com/did-the-crowds-really-turn-on-jesus/

 

[ddgently]

I heard something about this very topic on Christian radio recently. I had always just assumed they were the same crowds. Like the author says, I don't think it's a fundamental issue, but it is interesting to ponder.

 

[Ransom]

If you needed a mob scene, there was no shortage of rabble to rouse at the time. So no, there's no need for the two crowds to be made up of the same persons.

 

[The Rogue Tomato]

If you needed a mob scene, there was no shortage of rabble to rouse at the time. So no, there's no need for the two crowds to be made up of the same persons.

"Weawy, centuwion, I'm surpwised to hear a man like you wattled by a wabble of wowdy webels."

 

[rsc2a]

I will not have my fwiends widiculed by the common soldiewy!

 

[Ransom]

Stwike him, centuwion! Stwike him vewy wuffly!

 

[ALAYMAN]

Welp, that didn't take long to turn in the typical FFF direction.

 

[JrChurch]

Like any crowd of human beans ( ) they were fickle.  The account in John 12 says that the people who were gathering the day prior to the Triumphal Entry were there to see Jesus AND Lazarus (v.9) and the disciples didn't understand what was happening until after Jesus was glorified (v.16.)  Many of the chief rulers believed on Him, but didn't confess their belief because they wanted the praise of men (42,43).  So, I would conclude that the believing chief rulers were not fickle, but determined to keep their standing among the Jews.  Some people had seen Lazarus raised from the dead and were desiring to see more miracles and the disciples were just puzzled. If those who praised Jesus on His entry into Jerusalem were from the aforementioned groups, they could have been swayed by any group that called out, "Crucify Him!"

I think you have similar groups sitting in a church service on any given Sunday morning.

 

[HereIStand]

This is something that I put together for a devotional at church in 2011. (I believe that I posted it on the old FFF then.)

One of the issues raised by the passage today is the difference between the Jewish crowd gathered on Palm Sunday shouting “Hosanna!” versus the crowd gathered on Good Friday shouting “Crucify Him!.” How could the Palm Sunday crowd change so quickly to turn against Jesus? While some people may have changed their minds about Jesus, the Palm Sunday crowd is largely different from the Good Friday crowd. Paul Maier states that “the shouting multitude in front of Pilate's tribunal consisted primarily of priest-controlled temple staff – their police alone numbered 10,000.” When we look at the New Revised Standard translation of the first part of John 19:6, it states “when the chief priest and police saw him they shouted, 'Crucify him! Crucify him!'.” The significance of this is that the police being part of the temple staff, were unlikely to have gathered spontaneously before Pilate, but were likely directed to do so by the chief priest. Maier also contends that part of the Palm Sunday crowd did not receive the news that Christ was to be crucified until after Pilate had already handed Christ over to be crucified. And they gathered in sorrow as Christ carried His cross along the road to Golgotha.

 

[christundivided]

I can't help but believe both groups are made up of the basically the same people. You must realize that the first group expected their King to overcome the ruling government. They expected Him to act entirely differently than how He did. The second group of people basically viewed Christ as a defeated would be conquer.....much like His own inner circle of close disciples.

 

[The Rogue Tomato]

They were exactly the same people.  I was there, so I know. 

 

[ALAYMAN]

I can't help but believe both groups are made up of the basically the same people. You must realize that the first group expected their King to overcome the ruling government. They expected Him to act entirely differently than how He did. The second group of people basically viewed Christ as a defeated would be conquer.....much like His own inner circle of close disciples.

As simple of an analysis as this is, it is the conclusion that I came to regarding the issue long ago.  The inner-circle disciples who saw all of Christ's miracles were nowhere to be found, hiding and scared, in essential disbelief.  Those who were less acquainted with the work and person of Christ would be even more disillusioned when he didn't usher in the political triumph they had expected of the Messiah.