And if anyone says anything to you, you will say, ‘The Lord needs them,’[a] and he will send them at once.” Now this took place so that what was spoken through the prophet would be fulfilled, saying,

“Say to the daughter of Zion,
    ‘Behold, your king is coming to you,
humble and mounted on a donkey,
    and[b] on a colt, the foal of a pack animal.’”[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 21:3 Literally “has need of them”
  2. Matthew 21:5 Or “even”
  3. Matthew 21:5 A quotation from Zech 9:9