Back into Mark, and with a little speed

Over the coming weeks we will be finishing up the Gospel of Mark. This means we'll spend the next 8or9 weeks looking at the last week of Jesus' life.
Because there is SO MUCH there, I will post some excerpts of my research... so that if a certain section of Mark 11-16 hits you.... you can find a little more on it here.

THE KING ENTERS JERUSALEM (11:1-11)
Jesus now approaches and enters Jerusalem where the rest of Mark’s gospel will be set. Mark signals the importance
of the Mount of Olives by bookending this section with references to it (11:1, 13:3).
The sequence with the colt (v.27)
demonstrates Jesus’s sovereignty in the situation. He will enter Jerusalem on his
terms and in total control of events. In view of the way things will turn out this is an important statement.
It also introduces the prophecy from Zechariah 9:913
where Israel's messianic King comes to Jerusalem riding on the
colt of a donkey. According to the prophecy he comes to bring peace to the nations (Zech 9:10) and freedom and restoration to Israel (Zech 10:1112).
Notably, he will do this ‘...because of the blood of my covenant with you...” (Zech
10:11). This phrase will be picked up by Jesus in Mark 14:24 as he celebrates the Lord’s Supper in anticipation of his death.
The crowd’s response to Jesus in v.711, as he enters Jerusalem on the colt, further presses home the point that this is the messianic king come to begin his reign. He is recognised as the one who will bring about, “…the coming kingdom of our father David...” (v.10). Therefore, celebration and acclaim are totally appropriate. --From St. Helen's Church study guide for Mark