Verse 31
Luke 19:31
GOD'S WORD Translation
31
If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you untying it?’ say to him: ‘The Lord needs it.’”
Original Language Text
greek
καὶ ἐάν τις ὑμᾶς ἐρωτᾷ· Διὰ τί λύετε; οὕτως ⸀ἐρεῖτε ὅτι Ὁ κύριος αὐτοῦ χρείαν ἔχει.
English Translation
And if anyone asks you, "Why are you untying?" you shall say this: "The Lord has need of it."
AI translation from greek via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 19 Context
1
He entered and was passing through Jericho.
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There was a man named Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector, and he was rich.
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He was trying to see who Yashua (Jesus) was, and couldn’t because of the crowd, because he was short...
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4
He ran on ahead, and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, for he was going to pass that way.
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When Yashua (Jesus) came to the place, he looked up and saw him, and said to him,
“Zacchaeus, hurry...
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He hurried, came down, and received him joyfully.
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When they saw it, they all murmured, saying, “He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner.”
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Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor. If I have...
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9
Yashua (Jesus) said to him,
“Today, salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of Ab...
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10
For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost.”
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11
As they heard these things, he went on and told a parable, because he was near Jerusalem, and they s...
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12
He said therefore,
“A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and...
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13
He called ten servants of his, and gave them ten mina coins,
and told them, ‘Conduct business unti...
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14
But his citizens hated him, and sent an envoy after him, saying, ‘We don’t want this man to reign o...
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15
“When he had come back again, having received the kingdom, he commanded these servants, to whom he...
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The first came before him, saying, ‘Lord, your mina has made ten more minas.’
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“He said to him, ‘Well done, you good servant! Because you were found faithful with very little, yo...
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“The second came, saying, ‘Your mina, Lord, has made five minas.’
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19
“So he said to him, ‘And you are to be over five cities.’
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Another came, saying, ‘Lord, behold, your mina, which I kept laid away in a handkerchief,
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for I feared you, because you are an exacting man. You take up that which you didn’t lay down, and...
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22
“He said to him, ‘Out of your own mouth will I judge you, you wicked servant! You knew that I am an...
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23
Then why didn’t you deposit my money in the bank, and at my coming, I might have earned interest on...
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He said to those who stood by, ‘Take the mina away from him, and give it to him who has the ten min...
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25
“They said to him, ‘Lord, he has ten minas!’
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‘For I tell you that to everyone who has, will more be given; but from him who doesn’t have, even t...
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But bring those enemies of mine who didn’t want me to reign over them here, and kill them before me...
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Having said these things, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem.
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29
When he came near to Bethsphage and Bethany, at the mountain that is called Olivet, he sent two of h...
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30
saying,
“Go your way into the village on the other side, in which, as you enter, you will find a col...
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31
If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you untying it?’ say to him: ‘The Lord needs it.’”
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Those who were sent went away, and found things just as he had told them.
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33
As they were untying the colt, its owners said to them, “Why are you untying the colt?”
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They said, “The Lord needs it.”
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They brought it to Yashua (Jesus). They threw their cloaks on the colt, and set Yashua (Jesus) on th...
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As he went, they spread their cloaks on the road.
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As he was now getting near, at the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the discip...
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saying, “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord!
Peace in heaven, and glory in the h...
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39
Some of the Pharisees from the multitude said to him, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples!”
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40
He answered them,
“I tell you that if these were silent, the stones would cry out.”
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41
When he came near, he saw the city and wept over it,
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42
saying,
“If you, even you, had known today the things which belong to your peace! But now, they are...
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43
For the days will come on you, when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you, surround yo...
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and will dash you and your children within you to the ground. They will not leave in you one stone...
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45
He entered into the temple, and began to drive out those who bought and sold in it,
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46
saying to them,
“It is written, ‘My house is a house of prayer,’
but you have made it a ‘den of rob...
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47
He was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests and the scribes and the leading men among...
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48
They couldn’t find what they might do, for all the people hung on to every word that he said.
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