Matthew vs Mark/Luke/John on the question of donkeys
Video: “13 More Bible Contradictions” by Holy Koolaid
The texts in question are Matthew 21:7, Mark 11:7, Luke 19:35, and John 12:14
Below are Mr. Koolaid’s statements (in bold) followed by my response.
“As Jesus entered Jerusalem, did he ride one donkey or two?”
Man, that’s a tough one. For an atheist.
“But Matthew 21:7 [picture below appears on screen] has Jesus riding on two donkeys at the same time, in order to literally fulfill Zechariah 9:9.”
Mr. Koolaid actually said this while the above picture shows up on the screen.
“I thought this was literally just a mistranslation but when you read the original Greek [another picture, as seen below, shows up on the screen] he’s clearly riding on two donkeys.”
Oh, no! He showed a picture of “the original Greek!” What am I to do?
Oh, wait… Let’s take a closer look at the first picture:
What does it say in the words that I circled? “He sat on the cloaks!”
Let’s take a look at the second picture again:
You’ll see that the first “them” refers to the donkeys and the second “them” refers to the cloaks. Pretty simple to understand, eh? Jesus only rode on the one donkey, even in Matthew’s Gospel.
“The important question here is, did Jesus ride two donkeys like this, this, or this?”
Now that I made an ass (pun intended, of course) out of Mr. Koolaid, I shouldn’t forget to thank him for his mockery. That seems to be par for the course with atheists. If you can’t get ‘em with fake facts, get ‘em with “genuine” mockery. That’ll work!