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Humble and Riding a Donkey: A Pierced One and the Shepherd of His People | Zechariah 9–12
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Today we read Zechariah chapters 9 through 12, where the book turns from visions to prophecy about what is coming. Chapter 9 contains the image the Gospel writers reach for on Palm Sunday: rejoice greatly, shout, see your king comes to you, righteous and victorious, lowly and riding on a donkey, on a colt the foal of a donkey. Every word of that is deliberate. Victorious kings rode war horses. This one arrives on the animal you would use to carry grain.
Running underneath these chapters is the shepherd image, and it is handled with unusual bitterness. God is shepherd to His…
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