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Jesus Enters Jerusalem – Gustave Doré 1832-1883
Triumphal Entry of the Messiah in Jerusalem
This is Zachariah’s famous vision/prophecy:
Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Look!
Your king is coming to you: he is righteous and bringing salvation,
humble and riding on a donkey, on a young donkey, the foal of a
female donkey. (Zechariah 9:9 NET)
And this is Zachariah’s prophecy as quoted by Matthew:
"Tell the daughter of Zion, ‘Look, your king is coming to you, Lowly,
and [kai] sitting on a donkey, and [kai] on a colt, the foal of a
donkey.’ " (Matthew 21:5 – NET)
Apparently, in his zeal, Matthew has misinterpreted the original Hebrew and/or the Greek translation. And this is the disconcerting result:
6 So the disciples went and did as Jesus had instructed them. 7 They
brought the donkey and the colt and placed their cloaks on them, and
he sat on them. (Matthew 21:6-7 NET – emphasis by MdS)
Either a physical impossibility, or something absurd and silly.
This, much more than the discrepancy with Mark, Luke and John, all speaking only of one donkey (Mark 11:7; Luke 19:35; John 12:14-15), is the real problem.
Can we reconcile Matthew’s quotation of Zechariah with … Zechariah?
