A brief review of the triumphal entry of Jesus on Palm Sunday suggests that Jesus entered Jerusalem on a humble beast associated with peaceful purposes. Jesus did not ride in on a tank or an instrument of war. He entered not as a world conqueror or with the pomp and circumstance of an emperor.
Still this reference and description of Jesus riding toward Jerusalem suggests something even more profound. The point about the colt is not simply that the animal had not yet been defiled, not yet used for less worthy or more mundane purposes. What is more promising and to the point is that this procession ceremony is strongly reminiscent of a sacred coronation for a Davidic king, but this time for a Messianic King of universal peace and redemption.
What is suggested here is not simply humility per se but royalty adopted and patterned after ancient Judean kingship and coronation ritual.
Jesus is riding into Jerusalem in style, as the Messianic King here appropriately on an untried, unworked, unbroken colt, most fitting for this King, what we might call in more modern terms “a most special Old Testament Cadillac.”—Rev. Dr. Roger Utti, Saskatoon
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