“Go into the village opposite you, where as you enter you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever sat. Loose it and bring it here.” (Luke 19:30 NKJV)
It is indeed the lowliest of all memorable processions which Jesus plans, and yet, in its very humility, it appeals to ancient prophecy, and says to Zion that her King is coming to her. The monarchs of the East and the captains of the West might ride upon horses as for war, but the King of Zion would come to her meek, and sitting upon an ass, upon a colt, the foal of an ass. Yet there is fitness and dignity in the use of “a colt on which no one has ever sat,” and it reminds us of other facts, such as that He was the firstborn of a virgin mother, and rested in a tomb which corruption had never soiled.
Thus He comes forth, the gentlest of the mighty, with no swords gleaming around to guard Him, or to smite the foreigner who tramples Israel, or the worse foes of her own household. Men who will follow such a King must lay aside their vain and earthly ambitions, and awake to the truth that spiritual powers are grander than any which violence ever grasped.
-- Adapted from Chadwick, as quoted in “His Passion: Christ’s Journey to the Resurrection”
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