31And if any man ask you, Why do ye loose him? thus shall ye say unto him, Because the Lord hath need of him.
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A Psalm of David. The earth is the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
And if any man say unto you, Why do ye this? say ye that the Lord hath need of him; and straightway he will send him hither. …
For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. …
Saying unto them, Go into the village over against you, and straightway ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her: loose them, and bring them unto me. …
The word which God sent unto the children of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ:(he is Lord of all:)
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 28-40)We have here the same account of Christ’s riding in some sort of triumph (such as it was) into Jerusalem which we had before in Matthew and Mark; let us therefore here only observe, I. Jesus Christ was forward and willing to suffer and die for us. He went forward, bound in the spirit, to Jerusalem , knowing very well the things that should befal him there , and yet he went before, ascending up to…
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