Why did Jesus steal a donkey for Palm Sunday?

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05 Sep 2010, 5:43 am

According to the Bible, Jesus stole a limosine (literally a donkey) to drive through the streets of Jerusalem for a ticker tape parade on Palm Sabbath (Sunday).

Theft (car highjacking)(donkey theft) is against the law.

Is that the reason Jesus was dispatched by the local Jerusalem politicians on Friday - for car theft (theft of a donkey)?

(Source for the reported donkey theft: Matthew gospel, New Testament of the Bible)

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05 Sep 2010, 6:23 am

This post reminds me of the TV show 'History Bites'.

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05 Sep 2010, 8:21 am

I'm trying to imagine Jesus driving a limo.

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05 Sep 2010, 2:46 pm

Jono wrote:

I'm trying to imagine Jesus driving a limo.

No doubt he would be very very good at it. And depending on his water into the flexibility of his wine trick, he'd never run out of fuel.

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05 Sep 2010, 2:52 pm

pgd wrote:

Questions for Goddo topic

You get the answer once you have escaped the surly bonds of existence. :wink:

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05 Sep 2010, 3:22 pm

Probably.

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05 Sep 2010, 8:13 pm

uhoh! if i remember correctly he told someone else to steal it for him thus keeping him sin free, but wait if i tell you to steal some..nah you can see where i am going with this

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05 Sep 2010, 8:32 pm

I don't know about a theft, but according to The Jesus Dynasty by James Tabor, he rode on the ass because he knew it was prophesied that the savior would ride in on one.

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05 Sep 2010, 9:51 pm

richardbenson wrote:

uhoh! if i remember correctly he told someone else to steal it for him thus keeping him sin free, but wait if i tell you to steal some..nah you can see where i am going with this

That seems to be a recurrent theme. King David pulled that routine off as well, as did a few others.

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05 Sep 2010, 10:52 pm

If you would read further, you would know that the owner talked to the Jesus' disciples and let them have the donkey.

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06 Sep 2010, 2:52 am

Jesus sent his buddies out to get an ass and an ass foal so who could do a drive-by prophecy fulfillment.

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06 Sep 2010, 3:05 am

John_Browning wrote:

If you would read further, you would know that the owner talked to the Jesus' disciples and let them have the donkey.

Scruffy itinerant sword wielders show up looking for some ass, I'm inclined to give them what they want peacefully.

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06 Sep 2010, 12:39 pm

John_Browning wrote:

If you would read further, you would know that the owner talked to the Jesus' disciples and let them have the donkey.

a couple of things first how do you know who's telling the truth? what if that was added to coverup what jesus said?

being a christian i thought you were supose to believe evrything jesus said and not anything else in the universe, either way the whole situation seems fishy to me

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06 Sep 2010, 2:27 pm

richardbenson wrote:

John_Browning wrote:

If you would read further, you would know that the owner talked to the Jesus' disciples and let them have the donkey.

Are you demanding to see a certified receipt from Avis Rent-an-Ass?

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06 Sep 2010, 2:31 pm

well, all i hope for is if all of this is true when i die and jesus is my lawyer in heaven he understand my thinking

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06 Sep 2010, 2:37 pm

ruveyn wrote:

richardbenson wrote:

John_Browning wrote:

If you would read further, you would know that the owner talked to the Jesus' disciples and let them have the donkey.

Are you demanding to see a certified receipt from Avis Rent-an-Ass?

ruveyn

That receipt would be hard to get hold of, being 2000 years old and all.

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