1. Mark 11:11 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

What does Jesus do when he has entered Jerusalem?

Mark 11:11 (ESV)

11 And he entered Jerusalem and went into the temple. And when he had looked around at everything, as it was already late, he went out to Bethany with the twelve.

Jesus looks around at everything. Not as a pilgrim or tourist who visits a special place and admires it. He knows the temple very well, from the first time he visited the temple when he was twelve years old. He was aware it was my Father’s house (Luke 2:49). And several times he had visited the temple thereafter. Now he comes to inspect it as the King who is coming to his temple (Malachi 3:1).