Luke 19:31

WEB

³¹If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you untying it?’ say to him: ‘The Lord needs it.’”

KJV

³¹ And if any man ask you, Why do ye loose him? thus shall ye say unto him, Because the Lord hath need of him.

BSB

³¹If anyone asks, ‘Why are you untying it?’ tell him, ‘The Lord needs it.’”

FBV

³¹If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you untying it?’ just say, ‘The Lord needs it.’”

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Extra References

Mark 11:3-6

³If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ say, ‘The Lord needs him;’ and immediately he will send him back here.”

⁴They went away, and found a young donkey tied at the door outside in the open street, and they untied him. ⁵Some of those who stood there asked them, “What are you doing, untying the young donkey?” ⁶They said to them just as Jesus had said, and they let them go.

Psalms 24:1

¹The earth is the LORD’s, with its fullness; the world, and those who dwell in it.

Psalms 50:10-12

¹⁰For every animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock on a thousand hills. ¹¹I know all the birds of the mountains. The wild animals of the field are mine. ¹²If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it.

Matthew 21:2-3

²saying to them, “Go into the village that is opposite you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her. Untie them and bring them to me. ³If anyone says anything to you, you shall say, ‘The Lord needs them,’ and immediately he will send them.”

Acts 10:36

³⁶The word which he sent to the children of Israel, preaching good news of peace by Jesus Christ—he is Lord of all—