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Daughter of Zion (thugatēr Siōn). Nominative form (instead of thugater) but vocative case. The quotation is from Zec 9:9 shortened.
Thy King cometh (ho basileus erchetai). Prophetic futuristic present. The ass was the animal ridden in peace as the horse was in war (Jdg 10:4; Jdg 12:14; 2Sa 17:23; 2Sa 19:26). Zechariah pictures one coming in peace. So the people here regarded Jesus as the Prince of Peace in the triumphal entry.
Sitting on an ass’s colt (kathēmenos epi pōlon onou). Matthew (Mat 21:6.) does speak of both the ass and the colt having garments put on them, but he does not say that Jesus “sat upon” both animals at once, for epanō autōn (upon them) probably refers to the garments, not to the colts. When John wrote (end of the century), Jerusalem had fallen. Jesus will lament over Jerusalem (Luk 19:41.). So “Fear not” (mē phobou).