Dialogue with Trypho 53.2 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Christ's entry into Jerusalem on the ass fulfilled the prophecy.

Greek text · Archambault 1:236

Καὶ ὄνον δέ τινα ἀληθῶς σὺν πώλῳ αὐτῆς προσδεδεμένην ἔν τινι εἰσόδῳ κώμης Βηθφαγῆς λεγομένης, ὅτε ἔμελλεν εἰσέρχεσθαι εἰς τὰ Ἱεροσόλυμα ὁ κύριος ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦς Χριστός, ἐκέλευσε τοὺς μαθητὰς αὐτοῦ ἀγαγεῖν αὐτῷ, καὶ ἐπικαθίσας ἐπεισελήλυθεν εἰς τὰ Ἱεροσόλυμα· ὅπερ ὡς ἐπεπροφήτευτο διαρρήδην γενήσεσθαι ὑπὸ τοῦ Χριστοῦ, γενόμενον ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ καὶ γνωσθέν, τὸν Χριστὸν ὄντα αὐτὸν φανερὸν ἐποίει. Καί, τούτων ἁπάντων γενομένων καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν γραφῶν ἀποδεικνυμένων, ὑμεῖς ἔτι σκληροκάρδιοί ἐστε.

English · Claude translation

“And indeed, when our Lord Jesus Christ was about to enter Jerusalem, he ordered his disciples to bring him an ass that was actually tied with its foal at an entrance to a village called Bethphage; and he sat on it and entered Jerusalem. And this, which had been expressly prophesied to be done by the Christ, when it was done by him and known, made it plain that he was the Christ. And though all these things have happened and are proved from the Scriptures, you are still hard of heart.

About this passage

Source

Archambault 1:236 · Georges Archambault, ed., Justin: Dialogue avec Tryphon, 2 vols., Textes et documents pour l'étude historique du christianisme 8, 11 (Paris: Picard, 1909) · Greek text: G. Archambault, Justin: Dialogue avec Tryphon (Paris, 1909), digitized by the Perseus Digital Library and published by the First Thousand Years of Greek project (Open Greek and Latin), CC BY-SA 4.0

Text

As printed in Archambault. Manuscript variants and the editor's apparatus are not reproduced; no textual problem is noted in this passage.

Translation

Claude translation (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-26 · Translated by Claude from the Greek text of Archambault (1909); made independently of existing English translations.

Compare

Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885) (an older public-domain English translation, whole volume at CCEL; checked against ours only after ours was made)

Scripture

Matt 21:1 · allusion, high confidence
Matt 21:2 · allusion, high confidence
Matt 21:7 · allusion, high confidence

Cite this passage

Justin, Dial. 53.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/53/2/).

Plain text

Justin, Dial. 53.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/justin-dialogue/53/2/).