Lo, your king comes to you; triumphant and victorious is he, humble and riding on an ass, on a colt
the foal of an ass [Zech.
Ride without a saddle a colt,
the foal of an ass.
«Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation: lowly, and riding upon... a colt
the foal of an ass» (Zech.
Matthew says explicitly that this was done to fulfill prophecy, and the evangelist quotes the prophecy that is thus fulfilled: «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 (Matt.
Here the agency of the Messiah is presupposed, triumphant, and victorious, yet «humble and riding on an ass, on a colt
the foal of an ass» (Zech.
Tell the daughter of Zion, Behold, your king is coming to you, humble and mounted on an ass, and on a colt,
the foal of an ass.
When, for example, Jesus entered triumphantly into the city of Jerusalem amid the acclaim of the multitudes, riding upon an ass, he was but fulfilling the word of Zechariah written centuries before, «Behold thy king cometh unto thee, meek, and riding upon an ass and upon a colt,
the foal of an ass.
Not exact matches
Binding his
foal unto the vine, and his
ass's colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood
of grapes: His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.
The recent birth
of a female Grevy's zebra
foal at the Saint Louis Zoo marks another milestone in a long - running Washington University in St. Louis research partnership that is making significant contributions to the preservation
of Grevy's zebra and the equally endangered African wild
ass.