4All this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying,
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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.
Fear not, daughter of Sion: behold, thy King cometh, sitting on an ass's colt.
Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying,
But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled.
For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-11)All the four evangelists take notice of this passage of Christ’s riding in triumph into Jerusalem , five days before his death. The passover was on the fourteenth day of the month, and this was the tenth; on which day the law appointed that the paschal lamb should be taken up (Exod. 12:3), and set apart for that service; on that day therefore Christ our Passover, who was to be sacrificed for us, w…
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