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Matthew 21:6

The disciples went and did exactly what Jesus told them to do. They led the donkey and colt out, laid some of their clothes on them, and Jesus mounted. Nearly all the people in the crowd threw their garments down on the road, giving him a royal welcome. Others cut branches from the trees and threw them down as a welcome mat. Crowds went ahead and crowds followed, all of them calling out, "Hosanna to David's son!" "Blessed is he who comes in God's name!" "Hosanna in highest heaven!"

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Jesus, the Christ;   Scofield Reference Index - Christ;   Thompson Chain Reference - Obedience;   Obedience-Disobedience;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Hosanna;   Messiah;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Christ, Christology;   Praise;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Hutchinsonians;   Messiah;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Antichrist;   Olives, Mount of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Matthew, the Gospel of;   Triumphal Entry;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Text of the New Testament;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Animals;   Consciousness;   Dispersion ;   Interpretation;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Hosanna;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Chief parables and miracles in the bible;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The disciples went and did just as Jesus directed them.
King James Version (1611)
And the Disciples went, and did as Iesus commanded them,
King James Version
And the disciples went, and did as Jesus commanded them,
English Standard Version
The disciples went and did as Jesus had directed them.
New American Standard Bible
The disciples went and did just as Jesus had instructed them,
New Century Version
The followers went and did what Jesus told them to do.
Amplified Bible
Then the disciples went and did as Jesus had instructed them,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The disciples went and did just as Jesus had instructed them,
Legacy Standard Bible
And the disciples went and did just as Jesus had instructed them,
Berean Standard Bible
So the disciples went and did as Jesus had directed them.
Contemporary English Version
The disciples left and did what Jesus had told them to do.
Complete Jewish Bible
So the talmidim went and did as Yeshua had directed them.
Darby Translation
But the disciples, having gone and done as Jesus had ordered them,
Easy-to-Read Version
The followers went and did what Jesus told them to do.
Geneva Bible (1587)
So the disciples went, and did as Iesus had commaunded them,
George Lamsa Translation
And the disciples went and did as Jesus had commanded them.
Good News Translation
So the disciples went and did what Jesus had told them to do:
Lexham English Bible
So the disciples went and did just as Jesus directed them,
Literal Translation
And the disciples, having gone and having done as Jesus ordered them,
American Standard Version
And the disciples went, and did even as Jesus appointed them,
Bible in Basic English
And the disciples went and did as Jesus had given them orders,
Hebrew Names Version
The talmidim went, and did just as Yeshua commanded them,
International Standard Version
So the disciples went and did as Jesus had directed them.Mark 11:4;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
Then the disciples went, and did as Jeshu had commanded them;
Murdock Translation
And the disciples went, and did as Jesus commanded them.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The disciples went, and did as Iesus commaunded them,
English Revised Version
And the disciples went, and did even as Jesus appointed them,
World English Bible
The disciples went, and did just as Jesus commanded them,
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And the disciples went and did as Jesus had commanded them,
Weymouth's New Testament
So the disciples went and did as Jesus had instructed them:
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the disciplis yeden, and diden as Jhesus comaundide hem.
Update Bible Version
And the disciples went, and did even as Jesus appointed them,
Webster's Bible Translation
And the disciples went, and did as Jesus commanded them,
New English Translation
So the disciples went and did as Jesus had instructed them.
New King James Version
So the disciples went and did as Jesus commanded them.
New Living Translation
The two disciples did as Jesus commanded.
New Life Bible
The followers went and did as Jesus told them.
New Revised Standard
The disciples went and did as Jesus had directed them;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And the disciples, went, and did as Jesus directed them;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the disciples going, did as Jesus commanded them.
Revised Standard Version
The disciples went and did as Jesus had directed them;
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
The disciples went and dyd as Iesus comaunded them
Young's Literal Translation
And the disciples having gone and having done as Jesus commanded them,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The disciples wente, and dyd as Iesus commaunded them,
Mace New Testament (1729)
and the disciples went, and having done as Jesus commanded them,
Simplified Cowboy Version
The cowboys went into the village and did just what Jesus told 'em to.

Contextual Overview

1When they neared Jerusalem, having arrived at Bethphage on Mount Olives, Jesus sent two disciples with these instructions: "Go over to the village across from you. You'll find a donkey tethered there, her colt with her. Untie her and bring them to me. If anyone asks what you're doing, say, ‘The Master needs them!' He will send them with you." 4This is the full story of what was sketched earlier by the prophet: Tell Zion's daughter, "Look, your king's on his way, poised and ready, mounted On a donkey, on a colt, foal of a pack animal." 6The disciples went and did exactly what Jesus told them to do. They led the donkey and colt out, laid some of their clothes on them, and Jesus mounted. Nearly all the people in the crowd threw their garments down on the road, giving him a royal welcome. Others cut branches from the trees and threw them down as a welcome mat. Crowds went ahead and crowds followed, all of them calling out, "Hosanna to David's son!" "Blessed is he who comes in God's name!" "Hosanna in highest heaven!" 10 As he made his entrance into Jerusalem, the whole city was shaken. Unnerved, people were asking, "What's going on here? Who is this?" 11 The parade crowd answered, "This is the prophet Jesus, the one from Nazareth in Galilee."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

and did: Genesis 6:22, Genesis 12:4, Exodus 39:43, Exodus 40:16, 1 Samuel 15:11, John 15:14

Reciprocal: Ezekiel 12:7 - I did so Matthew 19:4 - Have Matthew 26:19 - the disciples Mark 11:4 - and found

Cross-References

Genesis 17:17
Abraham fell flat on his face. And then he laughed, thinking, "Can a hundred-year-old man father a son? And can Sarah, at ninety years, have a baby?"
Genesis 21:22
At about that same time, Abimelech and the captain of his troops, Phicol, spoke to Abraham: "No matter what you do, God is on your side. So swear to me that you won't do anything underhanded to me or any of my family. For as long as you live here, swear that you'll treat me and my land as well as I've treated you."
Genesis 21:27
So the two of them made a covenant. Abraham took sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelech. Abraham set aside seven sheep from his flock.
Isaiah 49:15
"Can a mother forget the infant at her breast, walk away from the baby she bore? But even if mothers forget, I'd never forget you—never. Look, I've written your names on the backs of my hands. The walls you're rebuilding are never out of my sight. Your builders are faster than your wreckers. The demolition crews are gone for good. Look up, look around, look well! See them all gathering, coming to you? As sure as I am the living God"— God 's Decree— "you're going to put them on like so much jewelry, you're going to use them to dress up like a bride.
Isaiah 54:1
"Sing, barren woman, who has never had a baby. Fill the air with song, you who've never experienced childbirth! You're ending up with far more children than all those childbearing women." God says so! "Clear lots of ground for your tents! Make your tents large. Spread out! Think big! Use plenty of rope, drive the tent pegs deep. You're going to need lots of elbow room for your growing family. You're going to take over whole nations; you're going to resettle abandoned cities. Don't be afraid—you're not going to be embarrassed. Don't hold back—you're not going to come up short. You'll forget all about the humiliations of your youth, and the indignities of being a widow will fade from memory. For your Maker is your bridegroom, his name, God -of-the-Angel-Armies! Your Redeemer is The Holy of Israel, known as God of the whole earth. You were like an abandoned wife, devastated with grief, and God welcomed you back, Like a woman married young and then left," says your God.
Hebrews 11:11
By faith, barren Sarah was able to become pregnant, old woman as she was at the time, because she believed the One who made a promise would do what he said. That's how it happened that from one man's dead and shriveled loins there are now people numbering into the millions.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the disciples went,.... The two disciples, as the Arabic version reads, to the village over against them; and, as Mark says, "found the colt tied to the door without, in a place where two ways met": the house was just at the entrance of the village, at the door of which, on the outside in the street, was the colt fastened, where were two ways of going into, and coming out of the town; so that it was a public place; the colt was easily seen, nor could it well be taken away without being observed, as it was by the owners of it: and

did as Jesus commanded them; they loosed the colt; and whereas whilst they were loosing it, the owners of it asked them, what they meant by so doing? they returned for answer what Christ had directed them to say; upon which they were satisfied, and let them go with it; see Mark 11:4. This is a very considerable instance of the faith of the disciples in Christ, and their ready and cheerful obedience to him; who might have objected the appearance of theft, the scandal that might be brought upon them, and the trouble they might be exposed to hereby; but they make no hesitation, but go and do as he had ordered them; and in which, they are worthy of the imitation of all the followers of Jesus.


 
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