Among the many oddly specific details recorded in the Gospel is how Jesus procured the donkey he rode into Jerusalem on the first Palm Sunday.
“Go into the village ahead of you,” he told two of his disciples, and we are left to guess which ones, “and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her; untie them and bring them to me. If anyone says anything to you, just say this, ‘The Lord has need of them.’”
How strange it must have been to receive that order! To be commanded by the Son of Man to take another man’s property, and a donkey, no less. (The owner, of course, consented).
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Equally confounding was the idea that the Messiah should ride into Jerusalem
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