The significance of Jesus riding on a donkey (in both the Old and New Testament passages today!) should not be missed. In Jesus's day, victors rode into town on the largest horse they could find. It was a symbol of their bigness over the smallness of those they had conquered. Jesus went the other way, riding a young donkey. It was almost absurd. It was also a sign of how the Kingdom of Jesus is different: we need not destroy others, we instead need to serve others.