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John 12:15 KJV
John · chapter 12 · verse 15
Fear not, daughter of Sion: behold, thy King cometh, sitting on an ass’s colt.John 12:15 · King James Version
John 12:15 in context
13Took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet him, and cried, Hosanna: Blessed is the King of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord.
14And Jesus, when he had found a young ass, sat thereon; as it is written,
15Fear not, daughter of Sion: behold, thy King cometh, sitting on an ass’s colt.
16These things understood not his disciples at the first: but when Jesus was glorified, then remembered they that these things were written of him, and that they had done these things unto him.
17The people therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus out of his grave, and raised him from the dead, bare record.
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Key words (Strong's)
- daughterthygatēra daughter, a daughter of God, acceptable to God, rejoicing in God s peculiar care and…G2364 →
- sittingkathēmaito sit down, seat one's self, to sit, be seated, of a place occupied, to have a fixed…G2521 →
- beholdidoubehold, see, loG2400 →
- cometherchomaito come, of persons, to come from one place to another, and used both of persons arriving…G2064 →
- ass'sonosan assG3688 →
- Fearphobeōto put to flight by terrifying , to put to flight, to flee, to fear, be afraid, to be…G5399 →
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This story of Christ's riding in triumph to Jerusalem is recorded by all the evangelists, as worthy of special remark; and in it we may observe, I. The respect that was paid to our Lord Jesus by the common people, Joh 12:12, Joh 12:13, where we are told, 1.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 12-19