“…saying to them, ‘Go to the village ahead of you, and just as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, which no one has ever ridden. Untie it and bring it here.’” (Mark 11:2)
The scene of Jesus’ entry to Jerusalem seems a little farcical. Imagine the scene of Jesus’ entry to Jerusalem amid cheering followers riding on a colt. Probably many people around gathered to see this incident as great spectacle might be taken place. Here a colt takes an important role in this incident. The colt symbolically signifies the fact that the one who rides on its back is Messiah, the king of peace.
Jesus sent two disciples to bring a colt. Jesus told them they would find a colt in which no one had ever ridden. Here the point ‘no one had ever ridden’ is important. Such colt only can ride Messiah. The important point of sacrifice animal for offering in Judaism and other ancient religion was its purity.
The process to bring a colt is mentioned in Mark 11:2-6 inordinately in detail. Other synoptic gospels also are the same. Only John’s gospel testifies Jesus’ entry to Jerusalem without explaining of a colt bringing process. The purpose of such statement in synoptic gospel may have an intention to emphasize historical certainty of Jesus’ Messianic character. Through this incident the author would like to say the fact that Jesus is Messiah which is even revealed in such a tiny incident of bringing a colt.
Yes. The salvation history of God happens through everything that seems to happen by chance. It means God’s will always transcend our thought and expectation. We today may ask like this, “What and who is a colt around us? Who can be used in Messianic incident?”
The scene of Jesus’ entry to Jerusalem seems a little farcical. Imagine the scene of Jesus’ entry to Jerusalem amid cheering followers riding on a colt. Probably many people around gathered to see this incident as great spectacle might be taken place. Here a colt takes an important role in this incident. The colt symbolically signifies the fact that the one who rides on its back is Messiah, the king of peace.
Jesus sent two disciples to bring a colt. Jesus told them they would find a colt in which no one had ever ridden. Here the point ‘no one had ever ridden’ is important. Such colt only can ride Messiah. The important point of sacrifice animal for offering in Judaism and other ancient religion was its purity.
The process to bring a colt is mentioned in Mark 11:2-6 inordinately in detail. Other synoptic gospels also are the same. Only John’s gospel testifies Jesus’ entry to Jerusalem without explaining of a colt bringing process. The purpose of such statement in synoptic gospel may have an intention to emphasize historical certainty of Jesus’ Messianic character. Through this incident the author would like to say the fact that Jesus is Messiah which is even revealed in such a tiny incident of bringing a colt.
Yes. The salvation history of God happens through everything that seems to happen by chance. It means God’s will always transcend our thought and expectation. We today may ask like this, “What and who is a colt around us? Who can be used in Messianic incident?”
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