Bonifazio, Plate 121, illustrates the account of Matthew relative to the ambitions of James and John.
Their mother comes worshiping, and asking that her two sons may receive special honor in Christ's Kingdom. Jesus is saying, "My cup indeed ye shall drink; but to sit on my right hand and on my left hand it is not mine to give." (Matt. 20:20-28.) Peter is ready to add his word of condemnation.
AT JERUSALEM.
PASSION WEEK.
Jesus went on his way towards Jerusalem, and when he came within sight of the city he wept over it and said, "Would that you had learned, while there was time—yes, even you—the things that make for peace! But as it is, they have been hidden from your sight. For a time is coming for you when your enemies will surround you with earthworks, and encircle you, and hem you in on every side; they will trample you down and your children within you, and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not see that God was visiting you." (Twentieth Century N. T., Luke 19:42-44.)
Eastlake, Plate, 124, has not followed the scriptural account closely, but has designed a panel, with the text in mind, possibly influenced also by Matt. 23:37, "How often would I have gathered thy children together as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!"
Deger, Plate 123, represents the triumphal entry into Jerusalem as recorded in all the Gospels, but with most complete detail in Luke 19:29-44. The people threw their garments upon a colt, and set Jesus thereon, and accompanied him from Bethpage to Jerusalem, waving palm branches (John 12:13), and spreading garments and palms in the street (Matt. 21:8), and shouting "Hosanna, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord." (Matt. 21:9.) The artist has allowed the mother of Jesus to witness this short lived triumph of her son; nor has he forgotten the children (Matt. 21:15).
