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3 And if anyone says anything to you, you shall say, ‘The Lord has need of them,’ and immediately he will send them.”
4 1All this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying: 
5 “Tella the daughter of Zion,
‘Behold, your King is coming to you,
Lowly, and sitting on a donkey,
A colt, the foal of a donkey.’ ”  
6 aSo the disciples went and did as Jesus commanded them.  
7 They brought the donkey and the colt, alaid their clothes on them, and set Him on them.  
8 And a very great multitude spread their clothes on the road; aothers cut down branches from the trees and spread them on the road.  
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Matthew 21:5

The daughter of Zion (th qugatri Siwn). Jerusalem as in Isaiah 22:4 (daughter of my people). So Babylon (Isaiah 47:1), daughter of Tyre for Tyre (Psalms 45:12).

Riding (epibebhkwv). Perfect active participle of epibainw, "having gone upon."

And upon a colt the foal of an ass (kai epi pwlon uion upozugiou). These words give trouble if kai is here taken to mean "and." Fritzsche argues that Jesus rode alternately upon each animal, a possible, but needless interpretation. In the Hebrew it means by common Hebrew parallelism "upon an ass, even upon a colt." That is obviously the meaning here in Matthew. The use of upozugiou (a beast of burden, under a yoke) for ass is common in the LXX and in the papyri (Deissmann, Bible Studies p. 161).




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Matthew 21:5:

Mark 11:8
John 12:14
James 3:13
2 Peter 2:16

 

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