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Joh_12:14-15. Εὑρὼν , δὲ κ . τ . λ .] The more detailed circumstances, how He had obtained the young ass ( ὀνάριον ), are passed over by John; hence he is not in contradiction with the Synoptics (Mat_21:2 ff. parall.).
καθώς ἐστι γεγρ .] Zec_9:9. See on Mat_21:5. John cites very freely from memory; hence the omission of the other prophetic predicates (even of the πραΐς in Matt.), because he has in his eye simply the point of the riding in upon the young ass, as a Messianic σημεῖον excluding all doubt. All the more fitted to tranquillize, then ( μὴ φοβοῦ ), in ever more peaceful array, without horse and chariot, is the coming of the King of Zion. Instead of μὴ φοβοῦ , John might also have said χαῖρε σφόδρα (LXX.); but there floated before him, in his citation from memory, simply the opposition to that terror by which otherwise a royal entrance may be accompanied. “The Church’s figure of the cross” (Hengstenberg) did not yet lie on this ass’s foal, otherwise John would not have passed over the òÈðÄé of the passage, nor have found the emphasis in μὴ φοβοῦ .