After rising Lazarus in Bethany, about two miles from Jerusalem, Jesus sends two of his disciples into Jerusalem to get the untamed colt of a donkey for him to ride into the city. That Jesus rode and didn’t walk showed his royal status, but that he rode a donkey and not a horse showed that he came as a peacemaker and not a conquer. However, the hymns for Palm Sunday also emphasize…
In the hymns of Palm Sunday, we are told that Jesus’ riding on a young donkey is prophetic. It speaks of the untamed and unclean gentiles whom Christ would tame. With the kidnapping of two bishops, and continued violence and (un)civil strife in Syria, we are reminded that Christ’s taming of the gentiles was through the Cross. Simply riding the young donkey praised by the crowd–the same crowd that would five…
