“Do not be afraid, O Daughter of Zion. See, your King is coming, seated on the colt of a donkey.”
This story of Christ's riding in triumph to Jerusalem is recorded by all the evangelists, as worthy of special remark; and in it we may observe, I. The respect that was paid to our Lord Jesus by the common people, Joh 12:12, Joh 12:13, where we are told, 1.
Commenting on John 12:12-19
Fear not, daughter of Zion,.... But rejoice; see Zac 9:9 and See Gill on Mat 21:5. . John 12:16 joh 12:16 joh 12:16 joh 12:16These things understood not his disciples at the first,.... Or "at that time", as the Syriac and Persic versions render it; or "on that day", as the Ethiopic version; they did not then know the sense of that prophecy, nor that...
CHRIST'S TRIUMPHAL ENTRY INTO JERUSALEM. (Joh 12:12-19) On the next day--the Lord's day, or Sunday (see on Joh 12:1); the tenth day of the Jewish month Nisan, on which the paschal lamb was set apart to be "kept up until the fourteenth day of the same month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel were to kill it in the evening" (Exo 12:3, Exo 12:6).
Commenting on John 12:12-19