John 12:15

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

“Do not be afraid, daughter of Zion. Look, your king is coming, sitting on a donkey’s colt!”

Cross References

2 Samuel 15:1

After this Absalom provided for himself a chariot and horses and fifty men to run ahead of him.

2 Samuel 16:2

The king said to Ziba, “Why have you brought these?” Ziba answered, “The donkeys are for the king’s household to ride, the bread and summer fruit are for the young men to eat, and the wine is for those to drink who faint in the wilderness.”

1 Kings 1:33

the king said to them, “Take with you the servants of your lord and have my son Solomon ride on my own mule and bring him down to Gihon.

Isaiah 41:14

Do not fear, you worm Jacob, you maggot Israel! I will help you, says the Lord; your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 62:11

The Lord has proclaimed to the end of the earth: Say to daughter Zion, “Look, your savior comes; his reward is with him and his recompense before him.”

Micah 4:8

And you, O tower of the flock, hill of daughter Zion, to you it shall come, the former dominion shall come, the sovereignty of daughter Jerusalem.

Zechariah 9:9

Rejoice greatly, O daughter Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter Jerusalem! See, your king comes to you; triumphant and victorious is he, humble and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

Matthew 21:5

“Tell the daughter of Zion, Look, your king is coming to you, humble and mounted on a donkey, and on a colt, the foal of a donkey.”

John 12:14

Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, as it is written:

Deuteronomy 17:16

Even so, he must not acquire many horses for himself or return the people to Egypt in order to acquire more horses, since the Lord has said to you, ‘You must never return that way again.’

Judges 12:14

He had forty sons and thirty grandsons who rode on seventy donkeys; he judged Israel eight years.

Judges 5:10

Sing of it, you who ride on white donkeys, you who sit on rich carpets, and you who walk by the way.