First, false ideals are exposed (19:1–10). Again we look at the place: “Jesus entered and passed through Jericho” (19:1). Once many years before, the prophet Elisha had healed Jericho’s bitter water (2 Kings 2:15–22). Jesus would have healed its lost soul. Instead, He simply “entered and passed through” the place. It was known as the city of palm trees (Deut. 34:3; Judg. 1:16), located about six miles from the river Jordan and about eighteen miles
Luke 19:1–27