Most modern readers, unacquainted with the training of donkeys, miss a crucial element in Mark’s description of Jesus’s donkey ride to Jerusalem. A colt that had “never been ridden” before normally would balk and not provide a suitable mount even for the brief journey recounted in this narrative. Mark’s description of its recruitment and cooperation thus implies divine enablement. The colt, unlike most humans in Mark’s Gospel, submits to its rightful lord.
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