And as they were loosing the colt, the owners thereof said unto them, Why loose ye the colt?
And as they were loosing the colt, the owners thereof said unto them, Why loose ye the colt?
and while they are loosing the colt, its owners said unto them, `Why loose ye the colt?'
And as they were loosing the colt, its masters said to them, Why loose ye the colt?
Luke — Luke's 'orderly account' (1:3) follows Jesus from Bethlehem through the long travel narrative to Jerusalem and the Emmaus road.
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Those men who were directed, when they were loosing the colt, did not use their own words, but spoke as Jesus had told them, that you may know that not by their own words, but the word of God, not in their own name but in Christ's, they implanted the faith among the Gentile nations; and by the command of God the hostile powers ceased, which claimed to themselves the obedience of the Gentiles.
Second, as regards the obedience of the disciples carrying out the command, it is added: And as they were loosing the colt, the owners thereof said to them: Why do you loose the colt? by the handling of another's property; and they are called several …
And as they were loosing the colt,.... In order to bring it away, as Christ bid them: the owners thereof said unto them, why loose ye the colt?
John Gill· Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)reformed
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
