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I\u2019m grateful to Brian Le Port<\/a> for reminding me of this video featuring Jean-Claude Van Damme demonstrating how Jesus might have ridden into Jerusalem on the back of both a donkey and its foal, as the Gospel of Matthew suggests<\/a>.<\/p>\n

<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If that seems too unrealistic, then you can always imagine it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2013\/11\/literalism-upon-literalism.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\" decorated-link\">like this<\/a> instead\u2026<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2013\/11\/Matthew-21-7-literalism.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"324\"><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m grateful to Brian Le Port for reminding me of this video featuring Jean-Claude Van Damme demonstrating how Jesus might have ridden into Jerusalem on the back of both a donkey and its foal, as the Gospel of Matthew suggests. If that seems too unrealistic, then you can always imagine it like this instead\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":44745,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,42],"tags":[2798,4103,5603,5677,8645,15141,15144],"class_list":["post-44742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gospel-of-matthew","category-humor","tag-donkey","tag-gospel-of-matthew","tag-jean-claude-van-damme","tag-jesus","tag-palm-sunday","tag-split","tag-triumphal-entry"],"yoast_head":"\n<title>Palm Sunday with Jesus as Jean-Claude Van Damme<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I'm grateful to Brian Le Port for reminding me of this video featuring Jean-Claude Van Damme demonstrating how Jesus might have ridden into Jerusalem on\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2018\/03\/palm-sunday-with-jesus-as-jean-claude-van-damme.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Palm Sunday with Jesus as Jean-Claude Van Damme\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I'm grateful to Brian Le Port for reminding me of this video featuring Jean-Claude Van Damme demonstrating how Jesus might have ridden into Jerusalem on\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2018\/03\/palm-sunday-with-jesus-as-jean-claude-van-damme.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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