Encounters with Jesus 6: Joanna (wife of Chuza) - Expectations (Audio)

In our Lent-Easter worship series, Encounters with Jesus, we’re following Jesus from his raising of Lazarus to his resurrection (based on John 11-20).

This Sunday we’ll hear the story of Joanna, the wife of Chuza.  After being healed by Jesus, she and some other women followed him and financially supported his ministry.  It is likely that they accompanied Jesus and the disciples to Jerusalem for Passover and were in the crowd on Palm Sunday, giving him a welcome fit for a king - the promised Messiah-King of Israel.

What were the expectations of those who sang Jesus’ praises that day.  Of the women who followed Jesus during his ministry in Galilee, and then to Jerusalem for the Passover festival?  And the children who came along as well?  What might their expectations have been of Jesus as Messiah-King?