31If anyone asks you, 'Why are you untying it?' say to him: 'The Lord needs it.'|


In Context

28 Having said these things, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem.

29 It happened, when he drew near to Bethsphage and Bethany, at the mountain that is called Olivet, he sent two of his disciples,

30 saying, |Go your way into the village on the other side, in which, as you enter, you will find a colt tied, whereon no man ever yet sat. Untie it, and bring it.

31 If anyone asks you, 'Why are you untying it?' say to him: 'The Lord needs it.'|

32 Those who were sent went away, and found things just as he had told them.

33 As they were untying the colt, its owners said to them, |Why are you untying the colt?|

Luke 19:31 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

19:31And if any man ask you, Why do ye loose [him?] thus shall ye say unto him, Because the Lord hath need of him.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

19:31If anyone asks you, 'Why are you untying it?' tell him, 'The Lord needs it.' "

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

19:31And if any man shall ask you: Why do you loose him? you shall say thus unto him: Because the Lord hath need of his service.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

19:31And if any one ask you, Why do ye loose him? thus shall ye say, The Lord hath need of him.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

19:31And if any one ask you, Why do ye loose it? thus shall ye say to him, Because the Lord has need of it.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

19:31And if any one ask you, Why do ye loose him? thus shall ye say, The Lord hath need of him.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

19:31And if any man shall ask you, Why do ye loose him? thus shall ye say to him, Because the Lord hath need of him.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

19:31and if any one doth question you, Wherefore do ye loose it? thus ye shall say to him — The Lord hath need of it.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

19:31And if any man ask you, Why do you loose him? thus shall you say to him, Because the Lord has need of him.