Commentary on the Gospel of St. John - With a Critical Introduction #247158

So true is it that this point of view, viz. The development of Jewish incredulity, is the governing principle to which the exposition of facts is in this whole section subordinated, that the triumphal entry (xii. 12 the event which forms, in the synoptic Gospels, the opening of the narrative of the Passion, is here only brought forward as one of the factors of 'this development.