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Preparatory to his triumphal entry what command did he give his disciples?
“Go ye into the village over against you; in the which at your entering ye shall find a colt tied, whereon yet never man sat: loose him, and bring him hither” ([Luke xix, 30]).
“Go into the village over against you, and straightway ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her: loose them, and bring them unto me” ([Matthew xxi, 2]).
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Did he ride both animals?
Matthew: He did. “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” ([6, 7]).
The equestrian feat of his riding two asses, a large one and a small one, at the same time, must have heightened the effect of this sublime pageant.
Matthew is continually seeing double. In the demoniac of Gadara he sees two demoniacs; in the blind man by the wayside he sees two men; and in other instances where the other Evangelists see but one person or thing he sees two.