JanH, I think you are stretching this way too far.
Not at all, Defender, as I have carefully explained earlier. You can try as you want, the Greek is just as strained as the English. You don't ried animals in plural, unless you actually are (as some circus and rodeo artists I have seen, but no others!).You can see that very clearly by comparing the text in Luke and Mark with what Matthew says. I have explained the case very carefully over, and I don't feel that you are doing anything but begging the question, ie "he can't have meant what he says, since it would be ridiculous." Whatever the case, Mark and Luke does say there is one, and Matthew quotes the text in an odd way and explicitly declares that the apostles fetched two animals, and that Jesus rode "them" (plural).
- Jan
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Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. [Ambrose Bierce, The Devil´s Dictionary, 1911]