Matthew 21:7

Christian Standard Bible ®

They brought the donkey and its foal; then they laid their clothes on them, and he sat on them.

Parallel Translations

King James Version (1611)
And brought the Asse, and the colt, and put on them their clothes, and they set him thereon.

King James Version
And brought the ass, and the colt, and put on them their clothes, and they set him thereon.

English Standard Version
They brought the donkey and the colt and put on them their cloaks, and he sat on them.

New American Standard Bible
and brought the donkey and the colt, and laid their cloaks on them; and He sat on the cloaks.

New Century Version
They brought the donkey and the colt to Jesus and laid their coats on them, and Jesus sat on them.

Amplified Bible
and they brought the donkey and the colt, and placed their coats on them; and Jesus sat on the coats.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
and brought the donkey and the colt, and laid their coats on them; and He sat on the coats.

Legacy Standard Bible
and brought the donkey and the colt, and laid their garments on them; and He sat on the garments.

Berean Standard Bible
They brought the donkey and the colt and laid their cloaks on them, and Jesus sat on them.

Contemporary English Version
They brought the donkey and its colt and laid some clothes on their backs. Then Jesus got on.

Complete Jewish Bible
They brought the donkey and the colt and put their robes on them, and Yeshua sat on them.

Darby Translation
brought the ass and the colt and put their garments upon them, and he sat on them.

Easy-to-Read Version
They brought the mother donkey and the young donkey to him. They covered the donkeys with their coats, and Jesus sat on them.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And brought the asse and the colt, and put on them their clothes, and set him thereon.

George Lamsa Translation
And they brought the ass and the colt, and they put their garments on the colt, and Jesus rode on it.

Good News Translation
they brought the donkey and the colt, threw their cloaks over them, and Jesus got on.

Lexham English Bible
and brought the donkey and the colt and put their cloaks on them, and he sat on them.

Literal Translation
they led the ass and the colt. And they put on them their garments, and set Him on them.

American Standard Version
and brought the ass, and the colt, and put on them their garments; and he sat thereon.

Bible in Basic English
And got the ass and the young one, and put their clothing on them, and he took his seat on it.

Hebrew Names Version
and brought the donkey and the colt, and laid their clothes on them; and he sat on them.

International Standard Version
They brought the donkey and the colt and put their coats on them, and he sat upon them.2 Kings 9:13;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
and brought the ass and the colt, and laid upon the colt their clothes, and Jeshu rode upon him.

Murdock Translation
And they brought the ass and the colt. And they placed their garments on the colt, and set Jesus upon it.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And brought the Asse, and the colt, and put on them their clothes, and set hym theron.

English Revised Version
and brought the ass, and the colt, and put on them their garments; and he sat thereon.

World English Bible
and brought the donkey and the colt, and laid their clothes on them; and he sat on them.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And brought the ass and the colt, and put on them their clothes and set him thereon:

Weymouth's New Testament
they brought the she-ass and the foal, and threw their outer garments on them. So He sat on them;

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thei brouyten an asse, and the fole, and leiden her clothis on hem, and maden hym sitte aboue.

Update Bible Version
and brought the donkey, and the colt, and put their garments on them; and he sat thereon.

Webster's Bible Translation
And brought the ass and the colt, and put on them their clothes, and they set [him] thereon.

New English Translation
They brought the donkey and the colt and placed their cloaks on them, and he sat on them.

New King James Version
They brought the donkey and the colt, laid their clothes on them, and set Him [fn] on them.

New Living Translation
They brought the donkey and the colt to him and threw their garments over the colt, and he sat on it.

New Life Bible
They brought the donkey and her young one. They put their clothes on the donkey and Jesus sat on them.

New Revised Standard
they brought the donkey and the colt, and put their cloaks on them, and he sat on them.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and led the ass and the colt, and laid upon them their garments, and he took his seat upon them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they brought the ass and the colt and laid their garments upon them and made him sit thereon.

Revised Standard Version
they brought the ass and the colt, and put their garments on them, and he sat thereon.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
and brought ye asse and the colte and put on them their clothes and set him theron.

Young's Literal Translation
brought the ass and the colt, and did put on them their garments, and set [him] upon them;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and brought the Asse and the foale, & layed their clothes vpon them, and set him theron.

Mace New Testament (1729)
they brought the ass with the colt, threw their clothes on them, and mounted him thereon:

Simplified Cowboy Version
They brought out the donkey and her colt, and used their jackets as a saddle blanket for the colt and Jesus got on.

Contextual Overview

¹When they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage at the Mount of Olives, Jesus then sent two disciples, ²telling them, “Go into the village ahead of you. At once you will find a donkey tied there with her foal. Untie them and bring them to me. ³If anyone says anything to you, say that the Lord needs them, and he will send them at once.” ⁴This took place so that what was spoken through the prophet might be fulfilled: ⁵Tell Daughter Zion,“See, your King is coming to you,gentle, and mounted on a donkey,and on a colt,the foal of a donkey.” ⁶The disciples went and did just as Jesus directed them. ⁷They brought the donkey and its foal; then they laid their clothes on them, and he sat on them. ⁸A very large crowd spread their clothes on the road; others were cutting branches from the trees and spreading them on the road. ⁹Then the crowds who went ahead of him and those who followed shouted: ¹⁰When he entered Jerusalem, the whole city was in an uproar, saying, “Who is this?”

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

brought: Mark 11:4-8, Luke 19:32-35

put: 2 Kings 9:13

Reciprocal: Ezekiel 12:7 - I did so Mark 11:7 - and cast Luke 19:35 - they cast

Cross-References

Genesis 21:11
This was very distressing to Abraham because of his son.

Genesis 21:12
But God said to Abraham, “Do not be distressed about the boy and about your slave. Whatever Sarah says to you, listen to her, because your offspring will be traced through Isaac,

Genesis 21:32
After they had made a covenant at Beer-sheba, Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, left and returned to the land of the Philistines.

Genesis 21:34
And Abraham lived as an alien in the land of the Philistines for many days.

Numbers 23:23
There is no magic curse against Jacoband no divination against Israel.It will now be said about Jacob and Israel,“What great things God has done!”

Psalms 86:8
Lord, there is no one like you among the gods,and there are no works like yours.

Psalms 86:10
For you are great and perform wonders;you alone are God.

Isaiah 49:21
Then you will say within yourself,‘Who fathered these for me?I was deprived of my children and unable to conceive,exiled and wandering—but who brought them up?See, I was left by myself—but these, where did they come from?’”

Isaiah 66:8
Who has heard of such a thing?Who has seen such things?Can a land be born in one dayor a nation be delivered in an instant?Yet as soon as Zion was in labor,she gave birth to her sons.

Ephesians 3:10
This is so that God’s multi-faceted wisdom may now be made known through the church to the rulers and authorities in the heavens.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And brought the ass and the colt,.... To Jesus, as Mark and Luke add, and who only make mention of the colt: both were undoubtedly brought; the colt being unloosed and taken away, the ass, its dam, followed after:

and put on them their clothes; their loose upper garments, to be instead of saddles and trappings, and that Christ might sit thereon with ease and decency: the other evangelists say, that they cast their garments on the colt; and the Syriac version here reads, "they put their garments on the colt, and Jesus rode upon it": but as both were brought, it is clear from hence, that their clothes were put upon both; not knowing which Christ would choose to ride on. And it should seem, that it was not unusual to put garments on asses to ride on; for the Targumist on Judges 5:10 represents the princes of Israel as riding upon asses, strewed or saddled with all kind

ציורין, of "painted garments". The Persic version, without the least colour of authority from the original text, renders it, "and Jesus put his own garment on the colt, and sat thereon"; which is ridiculous, as well as contrary to truth:

and they sat him thereon, or "on them": meaning either on the ass and colt, that is, on one of them, or both successively, or on the clothes they put upon them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And put on them their clothes - This was done as a token of respect, 2 Kings 9:13.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Matthew 21:7. And put on them their clothes — Thus acknowledging him to be their king, for this was a custom observed by the people when they found that God had appointed a man to the kingdom. When Jehu sat with the captains of the army, and Elisha the prophet came, by the order of God, to anoint him king over Israel, as soon as he came out of the inner chamber into which the prophet had taken him to anoint him, and they knew what was done, every man took his garment, and spread it under him on the top of the steps, and blew the trumpets, saying, "Jehu is king." 2 Kings 9:13.

And they set him thereon. — Και επεκαθισεν επανω αυτων, and he sat upon them; but instead of επανω αυτων, upon THEM, the Codex Bezae, seven copies of the Itala, some copies of the Vulgate, and some others, read επ' αυτον, upon him, i.e. the colt. This is most likely to be the true reading; for we can scarcely suppose that he rode upon both by turns, - this would appear childish; or that he rode upon both at once, for this would be absurd. Some say he sat on both; for "the ass that was tied up was an emblem of the Jews bound under the yoke of the law; and the colt that had not been tied represented the Gentiles who were not under the law; and that Jesus Christ's sitting on both represented his subjecting the Jews and the Gentiles to the sway of his evangelical sceptre." He who can receive this saying, let him receive it.