“Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass.”
Say to the daughter of Zion: behold, your king is coming to you, humble, and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a beast of burden. The Zechariah 9:9 citation frames the entry: the king who comes to Zion is humble, mounted on a donkey. The humility of the mode of entry — a donkey, not a war horse — communicates the character of the messianic king whose triumph comes through suffering rather than military conquest. The king who rode a donkey had come in peace; the king who rode a war horse had come in conquest.
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