Passion Week Reading Guide Palm Sunday On Palm Sunday Jesus enters into Jerusalem. The people there believed he is the long awaited Messiah King and sing Psalm 118 and lays Palm branches to welcome Jesus. After entering the temple Jesus looks around and leaves. Read Mark 11:1-11 Question: Is Jesus just a king or something more? If Jesus was to come and look at your life, would he stay or would he just leave? Monday - Wednesday The next day Jesus returns to Jerusalem and on the way they come across a fig tree that bears no fruit. Jesus curses that tree. When He gets to the temple in Jerusalem He finds people in the temple courts making a profit from the worshippers. Jesus chases them out of the temple and declares that the temple should be a house of prayer. They return from Jerusalem to see the Fig tree again, dead and withered. Mark 11:12-25 Symbolism of the Fig Tree: Hosea 9:10 Question : What is the lesson of the fig ...