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Originally Posted by BarbaraGordon
Here's my take:
1. This story was recorded decades later so obviously the details themselves and certainly the exact conversation were lost to time.
2. The play on words was a rhetorical tool employed by the written author to emphasize the role Jesus was claiming to his contemporaries.
3. If the donkey was indeed taken without just compensation, the disciples may well have invoked their teacher's name as part of their explanation. Jesus was nearing the end of his ministry, already well known, and his prominence and perceived promise to end the Roman occupation may well have been enough for these owners to grant him the use of their colt.
I know at Easter lessons in the past I've heard that this transaction may have been pre-arranged, the disciples' words simply serving as some kind of verification to the owners that they were entitled to take the donkey on behalf of Jesus.
Mark and Matthew have slightly different accounts of what transpired when the disciples were sent on donkey duty.
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They bought a donkey on credit?
If I was in the advertising business and VISA was one of my clients, I'd be all over this. Or MasterCard:
Blankets: 4 mites
Palms: 3 mites
Being King of the Jews: Priceless.
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Last edited by il Padrino Ute; 03-17-2008 at 01:06 AM.
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