A donkey carried Jesus into Jerusalem, and that ride gives the animal its meaning in Scripture: the working beast of ordinary households became the sign of a humble king who comes in peace. Zechariah promised a king “lowly, and riding upon an ass” (Zechariah 9:9), and Jesus kept that promise in the days before the cross. The Gospels slow down to tell how he found it. Jesus sent two disciples into a village, where they would find “a colt tied,…

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