21:1-7 Who prophesied that Jesus would come riding a donkey and how many donkeys were involved?

21:1-7 Who prophesied that Jesus would come riding a donkey and how many donkeys were involved?

Zechariah, the Old Testament prophet, referring to Messiah’s first advent prophesied that He would come riding a donkey (cp Zech 9:9).

The word and, both here and Mt 21:5 in the KJV, indicates that there are two donkeys involved in Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem, yet both Mark and Luke only mention one (cp Mk 11:1-7; Lk 19:28-35).

According to Kenneth Wuest’s Expanded Translation of the Greek New Testament and most modern versions of the Bible and should have been translated even in both Mt 21 and Zech 9:1 all, thus rendering the latter part of the verse in the KJV “...and sitting upon an ass, even a colt, the foal of an ass”. Thus we see that only one donkey is involved.

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