“Saying unto them, Go into the village over against you, and straightway ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her: loose them, and bring them unto me.”
Saying to them: go into the village in front of you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her. Untie them and bring them to me. The specific instructions — a donkey tied, and a colt with her — communicates Jesus' foreknowledge and the deliberate fulfillment of Zechariah 9:9. The two animals correspond to the Hebrew poetry of Zechariah where the parallelism describes one animal: a donkey, even a colt, the foal of a donkey. Matthew's literal reading of the parallelism produces two animals; Jesus rides the colt.
Church Fathers on Matthew 21:2
aug hter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass.'
Catena Aurea · St. Thomas Aquinas, tr. J. H. Newman · public domain
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