Matthew: A colt and an Ass !

[Prester John]

http://www.vexen.co.uk/religion/matthew.html#2donkeys

Matthew's gospel contains 92% of the text that appears in Mark! This is a very high percentage - almost a copy - but Matthew corrected many of Mark's blunders about the Jewish ways of life and proceeded, a few versions later, to add the chapters about the virgin birth.

Matthew 21:5-7
Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass. 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

Mark 11:7
And they brought the colt to Jesus, and cast their garments on him; and he sat upon him

Luke 19:35
And they brought him to Jesus: and they cast their garments upon the colt, and they set Jesus thereon

John 12:14
And Jesus, when he had found a young ass, sat thereon.

How do you sit on an ass and a colt at the same time??

From the above link

Why does Matthew alter the text in such a bizarre way? It seems he misread Zechariah 9:9: "mounted on a donkey, and on a colt, the foal of a donkey". We have already seen from Matthew's misinterpretation of the difference between the Hebrew word "Almah" and "Betulah" that he has a poor understanding of Hebrew.

doh!