Promise kept
Your king comes on a donkey
Zechariah written (520–480 BC) to Jesus rides into Jerusalem (AD 30–33): ~510–550 years in the Modern reckoning.
Zechariah sees the king coming humbly on a donkey; Matthew quotes him as Jesus rides into Jerusalem. Many scholars date Zechariah 9–14 later than 520 BC, to between 400 and 300 BC.
“Say to the Daughter of Zion, ‘See, your King comes to you, gentle and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.’”
Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph, O Daughter of Jerusalem! See, your King comes to you, righteous and victorious, humble and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey. And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the horse from Jerusalem, and the bow of war will be broken. Then He will proclaim peace to the nations. His dominion will extend from sea to sea, and from the Euphrates to the ends of the earth.
How many years apart?
| From | To | Between | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Modern | Zechariah written, 520–480 BC | Jesus rides into Jerusalem, AD 30–33 | ~510–550 years |
| Traditional | Zechariah written, 520–480 BC | Jesus rides into Jerusalem, AD 30 | ~510–550 years |
Where an event has no date in a reckoning, the arc starts when the book was written. About the two reckonings.
Is it in the cross-reference data?
Yes: OpenBible.info links Matthew 21:5 and Zechariah 9:9–10, with 101 reader votes.