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Literal Standard Version

Luke 19:34

And they said, "The LORD has need of it";

Bible Study Resources

Dictionaries:

- Fausset Bible Dictionary - Olives, Mount of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Luke, Gospel of;   Triumphal Entry;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Consciousness;   Dominion (2);   Entry into Jerusalem;   Humiliation of Christ;   Nature and Natural Phenomena;   Owner ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Olives;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“The Lord needs it,” they said.
King James Version (1611)
And they said, The Lord hath need of him.
King James Version
And they said, The Lord hath need of him.
English Standard Version
And they said, "The Lord has need of it."
New American Standard Bible
They said, "The Lord has need of it."
New Century Version
The followers answered, "The Master needs it."
Amplified Bible
They said, "The Lord needs it."
Legacy Standard Bible
And they said, "The Lord has need of it."
Berean Standard Bible
"The Lord needs it," they answered.
Contemporary English Version
They answered, "The Lord needs it."
Complete Jewish Bible
and they said, "Because the Lord needs it."
Darby Translation
And they said, Because the Lord has need of it.
Easy-to-Read Version
The followers answered, "The Master needs it."
Geneva Bible (1587)
And they sayd, The Lorde hath neede of him.
George Lamsa Translation
And they said to them, Our Lord needs it.
Good News Translation
"The Master needs it," they answered,
Lexham English Bible
So they said, ‘The Lord has need of it.'
Literal Translation
And they said, The Lord has need of it.
American Standard Version
And they said, The Lord hath need of him.
Bible in Basic English
And they said, The Lord has need of him.
Hebrew Names Version
They said, 'The Lord needs it.'
International Standard Version
The disciplesThey">[fn] answered, "The Lord needs it."
Etheridge Translation
And they said to them, Because by our Lord it is requested.
Murdock Translation
And they said: Because our Lord needeth him.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And they sayde: For the Lorde hath neede of hym.
English Revised Version
And they said, The Lord hath need of him.
World English Bible
They said, 'The Lord needs it.'
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And they said, The Lord hath need of him.
Weymouth's New Testament
and they replied, "The Master needs it."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thei seiden, For the Lord hath nede to hym.
Update Bible Version
And they said, The Lord has need of him.
Webster's Bible Translation
And they said, The Lord hath need of him.
New English Translation
They replied, "The Lord needs it."
New King James Version
And they said, "The Lord has need of him."
New Living Translation
And the disciples simply replied, "The Lord needs it."
New Life Bible
They answered, "The Lord needs it."
New Revised Standard
They said, "The Lord needs it."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, they, said - His Lord, hath, need.
Douay-Rheims Bible
But they said: Because the Lord hath need of him.
Revised Standard Version
And they said, "The Lord has need of it."
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And they sayde: for ye Lorde hath nede of him.
Young's Literal Translation
and they said, `The Lord hath need of it;'
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
They sayde: The LORDE hath nede therof.
Mace New Testament (1729)
they answer'd, because the Lord has occasion for it.
THE MESSAGE
They said, "His Master needs him."
Simplified Cowboy Version
The two cowboys said, "The Top Hand needs it for a little while."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
They said, "The Lord has need of it."

Contextual Overview

28And having said these things, He went on before, going up to Jerusalem. 29And it came to pass, as He came near to Bethphage and Bethany, to that called the Mount of Olives, He sent two of His disciples, 30having said, "Go away into the village in front of [you], in which, entering in, you will find a colt bound, on which no one of men ever sat, having loosed it, bring [it]; 31and if anyone questions you, Why do you loose [it]? Thus you will say to him: The LORD has need of it." 32And those sent, having gone away, found according as He said to them, 33and while they are loosing the colt, its owners said to them, "Why do you loose the colt?" 34And they said, "The LORD has need of it";35and they brought it to Jesus, and having cast their garments on the colt, they sat Jesus on it. 36And as He is going, they were spreading their garments in the way, 37and as He is coming near now, at the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began rejoicing to praise God with a great voice for all the mighty works they had seen,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Zechariah 9:9, John 10:35, John 12:16, 2 Corinthians 8:9

Reciprocal: Luke 22:11 - The Master John 4:1 - the Lord

Cross-References

Isaiah 3:9
The appearance of their faces witnessed against them, || And their sin, as Sodom, they declared, || They have not hidden! Woe to their soul, || For they have done evil to themselves.
Jeremiah 3:3
And showers are withheld, and there has been no spring rain. You have the forehead of a whorish woman, || You have refused to be ashamed.
Jeremiah 5:3
YHWH, Your eyes, are they not on steadfastness? You have struck them, and they have not grieved, || You have consumed them, || They have refused to receive instruction, || They made their faces harder than a rock, || They have refused to turn back.
Jeremiah 6:15
They were ashamed when they did abomination! Indeed, they are not at all ashamed, || Indeed, they have not known blushing, || Therefore they fall among those falling, || In the time I have inspected them, || They stumble," said YHWH.
Jeremiah 8:12
They were ashamed when they did abomination! Indeed, they are not ashamed at all, || And they have not known blushing, || Therefore, they fall among falling ones, || They stumble in the time of their inspection, said YHWH.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they said, the Lord hath need of him. Or, our Lord, as the above versions in verse 31 (Vulgate Latin and Ethiopic). They used the words Christ directed them to, and it had the effect he said it would; for the owners both let them go, and the colt with them directly; :- and

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See the notes at Matthew 21:1-16.


 
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