What animal did Jesus ride when he entered Jerusalem?

Answer 1

It was to fulfill the Prophet Zechariah's prophecy that the Messiah would enter Jerusalem riding on a donkey. Also, Jesus was not a king with all the earthly trappings of wealth. It signified his great humility to be riding upon a beast of burden. He himself was to bear the burden of sins.

Answer 2

Jesus goes to Jeruslem riding on a donkey to fulfill the old testament prophecy, inZechariah chapter 9 verse 9.

Answer

Called the Triumphal Entry: It was on the Sunday before His death. Jesus had come as the long foretold Messiah. For three years He had proclaimed Himself to the nation by unceasing travel and miracles and through the journeys and miracles of the Twelve and of the Seventy-Two. He knew that His death had been decided by the rulers. He made ready for it. In a grand public demonstration that gave final notice to the Holy City, He entered amid the hallelujahs and hosannas of the expectant crowds. The people were jubilant. They though the hour of deliverance was at hand. Jesus rode on a colt because it was foretold that Messiah would come that way (Zechariah 9:9).

Answer 3

Mark's Gospel, followed by both Luke and John, simply had Jesus ride into Jerusalem on a colt, but Matthew expanded the story, making it seem ridiculous:

21:2 Go into the village over against you and straightway you shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her, loose them and bring them unto me. 21:5 Behold thy king cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass and a colt the foal of an ass 21:7 And they brought the ass, and the colt, and put on them their clothes, and they set him thereon.

So, in Mark, Luke and John, Jesus rode a colt or young ass into Jerusalem. In Matthew, Jesus rode both an ass and a colt, apparently at the same time.

Another answer:

; Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass. And the disciples went, and did as Jesus commanded them And brought the ass, and the colt, and put on them their clothes, and they set him thereon. Matthew 21 : 5-7

Answer 4

you see, the donkey is not a very respected animal, actually he is a very lowly animal.

Jesus was showing that he, as God's Son, was not coming to earth as a great king to rule over all, but to show that he was coming humbly to save us all.

Answer 5

It does seem strange that, after walking all the way from Galilee to Jerusalem, Jesus would choose to ride a donkey for just the last few hundred metres into the city. The gospels seem to have been trying to create a link to Zechariah 9:9: "Be exceedingly happy, O daughter of Zion; Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem. Behold! Your king shall come to you. He is just and victorious; humble, and riding a donkey and a foal, the offspring of [one of] she-donkeys." [I have quoted the Tanakh in English translation, but approximately half the English language Christian Bibles also include "having salvation" in the attributes of the king.]