“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 an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.”
Zechariah 9:9 KJV
Everything that Jesus did was to fulfill scripture that had been prophesied hundreds of years earlier. Zechariah returned from exile in Babylon to Jerusalem and was a prophet with a priestly background. He encouraged the Jews to rebuild the second Temple and also to prophecy the coming of the Messiah. Here the prophet says to behold the Messiah as King riding upon a colt, the foal of an ass. The King came not to wage war against His people but to give Himself as a sacrifice to take away the sin of the world. God came as a Man by humbling Himself, and becoming obedient to death, even the death of the cross. That’s why God has highly exalted Jesus, and given Him a Name which is above every name, that at the Name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth, that every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father! Hosanna in the Highest!
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