Mt 21:7 "they brought the ass and the colt, and put their garments on them, and he sat thereon."
The language leaves no doubt it is the author's serious intention to tell the audience that Jesus indeed rode two animals at the same time.
JanH, I think you are stretching this way too far.Any casual reader, when reading the above statement, will not immediately picture Jesus riding on two animals at the same time. It does not make sense. If the author's intention is to tell audience that Jesus rode two animals at the same time, he would elaborate much more on this, giving specific details IN ORDER to highlight a bizzare situation. He would give descriptions like saying that they tied the two animals together, or that Jesus stretched one leg over one animal and the other leg over the other, etc.. But Matthew simply said "he sat thereon" giving the only logical impression that Jesus rode on ONE of them.As to the second animal, we are talking about asses, and not arabian horses. Every decent resident of Jerusalem owned at least an ass, it was their trusty old "Fords", everone got them. It is not hard to imagine Jesus securing a colt and then someone lent him the other ass.but it also demonstrates conclusively that Matthew created events in Jesus' life to fulfill OT "prophecies."
I think the issue is not that Matthew created the events, but rather Jesus himself created events to fulfill OT prophecies. Whether this counts as genuine fulfillment is a matter of personal faith.Let's say that there is a glass of water on a table and I prophecy that in 10 seconds, the glass will fall to the floor. When the 10 seconds are up, I walk to the table and push the glass off. Was the prophecy fulfilled? Sure! I know, it would have been more melodramatic if I were to be invisible. But still the prophecy was fulfilled. If we have a personal faith that Jesus, in his pre-human existence, had a hand in inspiring the prophecies in the OT, then he could just as easily create events to fulfill them.