King James Version
John 12:15 in the King James Version says “Fear not, daughter of Sion: behold, thy King cometh, sitting on an ass's colt.” — study this verse from John chapter 12 with commentary, cross-references, and original Greek word analysis.
“Fear not, daughter of Sion: behold, thy King cometh, sitting on an ass's colt.”
John 12:15 · KJV
Took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet him, and cried, Hosanna: Blessed is the King of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord.
And Jesus, when he had found a young ass, sat thereon ; as it is written,
Fear not, daughter of Sion: behold, thy King cometh, sitting on an ass's colt.
These things understood not his disciples at the first: but when Jesus was glorified, then remembered they that these things were written of him, and that they had done these things unto him.
The people therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus out of his grave, and raised him from the dead, bare record.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“not”
G3361(adverb) not, (conjunction) lest; also (as an interrogative implying a negative answer (whereas g3756 expects an affirmative one)) whether
“Fear”
G5399to frighten, i.e., (passively) to be alarmed; by analogy, to be in awe of, i.e., revere
“of Sion”
G4622sion (i.e., tsijon), a hill of jerusalem; figuratively, the church (militant or triumphant)
“cometh”
G2064to come or go (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
“sitting”
G2521and ???? (to sit; akin to the base of g1476); to sit down; figuratively, to remain, reside
“on”
G1909properly, meaning superimposition (of time, place, order, etc.), as a relation of distribution (with the genitive case), i.e., over, upon, etc.; of re
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