Matthew Poole and continuators on Matthew 21:5

5 Tell ye the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt, the foal of an ass.

The Words are, Zech. 9.9. Rejoyce greatly O Daughter of Zion, shout O Daughter of Ierusalem, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee: He is just, and having Salvation, Lowly, and riding upon an Ass, and upon a Colt the Foal of an Ass. The Evangelist quoteth no more of them, then served for his purpose. Iohn in the short Account, he giveth of this our Saviour's entrance, quoteth them shorter. Ioh. 12.15. The former part of the Words are found, Isa. 62.11. The Iews agree this Prophecy to respect the Messiah, tho they were so blinded, as not to see it was fulfilled in Christ. Tell you the Daughter of Zion, Prophecy you to the Iews, to the Citizens, and Inhabitants of Ierusalem, Behold, Thy King cometh to thee. Thy spiritual King, having Salvation, the King promised, and foretold, that shall bring Salvation, cometh, that is, shall shortly come to thee for thy Profit and Advantage. And you shall know him by this. He shall come [non-Latin text not transcribed], Poor, Afflicted, Meek, Lowly, sitting upon an Ass, an Ass used to bear Burdens (so the Word signifies) and a Colt the Foal of an Ass: Not upon both, they are Exegetical of each other. The first denoted the Species of the Beast, the second its Age: There was not any Prophecy of Christ more plainly fulfilled than this. Asses were of Old Beasts, that Great Persons used to ride on, Iud. 10.4. ch. 12.14. But after Solomons time, the Iews got a Breed of Horses; so as only Poor people rode upon Asses, mostly reserved for Burdens; whom could the Iews possibly expect to see coming, riding into Ierusalem, under the Notion of a King bringing them Salvation, in so little State, upon the Foal of an Ass, but the Person Prophecied of by Zachariah, Ch. 9.9. whom they themselves Confess to be the Messiah? And had not there been a strange Veil upon their Hearts, Herods Courtiers, and Pilates might have understood, his Kingdom was not of this World, nor he such a King, as threatned their Grandeur.