Referring to my former post,
it's pretty obvous what Matthew, the apostle who wrote that Jesus was born of a virgin, was doing.
In all four gospels, Jesus provocatively rides into Jerusalem on a young donkey in fulfilment of the prophecy in Zechariah 9:9, “Rejoice greatly, O daughter Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter Jerusalem! Lo, your king comes to you; triumphant and victorious is he, humble and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.”
In three of the four accounts of the triumphal entry, Jesus rides a single donkey. Matthew, though, apparently misunderstands the prophecy and, rather absurdly, has Jesus ride two donkeys, at once, in another attempt to fulfill prophecy, (which he misread), with little regard for facts. (Matthew 21, 1-7, They brought the donkey and the colt, laid their clothes on them, and set Him[d] on them.). Just as he put a very pregnant Mary on a 120 mile roundtrip on a donkey, and added the 'virgin birth' to the story, nothing was off-limits or too far-fetched. I DO know, that the people (Jewish), who actually lived with and saw the actual events unfold weren't impressed. It wasn't until the stories were told, retold and embellished that the new religion took off. If the prophecied facts weren't actually there, they were just added as needed, and written down later in the 'infallible' Bible.
In all four gospels, Jesus provocatively rides into Jerusalem on a young donkey in fulfilment of the prophecy in Zechariah 9:9, “Rejoice greatly, O daughter Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter Jerusalem! Lo, your king comes to you; triumphant and victorious is he, humble and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.”
In three of the four accounts of the triumphal entry, Jesus rides a single donkey. Matthew, though, apparently misunderstands the prophecy and, rather absurdly, has Jesus ride two donkeys, at once, in another attempt to fulfill prophecy, (which he misread), with little regard for facts. (Matthew 21, 1-7, They brought the donkey and the colt, laid their clothes on them, and set Him[d] on them.). Just as he put a very pregnant Mary on a 120 mile roundtrip on a donkey, and added the 'virgin birth' to the story, nothing was off-limits or too far-fetched. I DO know, that the people (Jewish), who actually lived with and saw the actual events unfold weren't impressed. It wasn't until the stories were told, retold and embellished that the new religion took off. If the prophecied facts weren't actually there, they were just added as needed, and written down later in the 'infallible' Bible.
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