for you assert, that I cast out demons by Beelzebub. but if I cast out demons by Beelzebub, by whom do your sons cast them out? wherefore they shall be your judges.

if we should assert, it was a human contrivance, the populace would stone us; for they are persuaded that John was a prophet.

How then can we assert, "that Abraham our father obtained this from circumcision?"

Now if it has been declared, that Christ rose from the dead, how comes it, that some among you assert, "there is no resurrection of the dead?"

saying, " tell ye the daughter of Sion, behold, thy king cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting on an ass, even a colt, the fole of an ass."

now Jesus was riding upon a young ass, which he got by the way; as it is written,

"fear not, daughter of Sion: behold, thy king comes sitting on an ass's colt."

saying, go to yonder village, and you will immediately find an ass tied, and a colt with her: loose them, and bring them to me.

they brought the ass with the colt, threw their clothes on them, and mounted him thereon:

but he was rebuked for his transgression: for an ass, as dumb as it was, spoke with an articulate voice, and reprimanded the extravagance of the prophet.

to which Jesus replied, thou hypocrite, who is there among you that scruples to untie his ox or his ass, and lead him from the stall to water on the sabbath-day?