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Zechariah 9
Judgement on the nations around Israel is followed by the coming king: 'Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion… your king comes to you, righteous and having salvation, humble and riding on a donkey, on a colt the foal of a donkey.' He will speak peace to the nations.
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- Textually stated
Matthew and John see in the entry Zechariah's promise of a king coming humble, riding on a donkey; the crowd's cry echoes Psalm 118.
- Plausible
One animal or two?: Matthew mentions a donkey and her colt; Mark, Luke and John speak of one young animal. A likely reading is that the mother came along with the colt Jesus rode, and Matthew names both to match the two lines of Zechariah 9:9.