Matthew 21:2 BSB — MannaFest

Matthew 21:2

saying to them, “Go into the village ahead of you, and at once you will find a donkey tied there, with her colt beside her. Untie them and bring them to Me.

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ASV

saying unto them, Go into the village that is over against you, and straightway ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her: loose them, and bring them unto me.

KJV

Saying unto them, Go into the village over against you, and straightway ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her: loose them, and bring them unto me.

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Jerome

Commentary on Matthew (420)

(Chapter 21, verses 1 onwards) And when he drew near to Jerusalem and came to Bethphage, to the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples, saying to them, 'Go into the village opposite you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her. Untie them and bring them to me. If anyone says anything to you, you shall say, 'The Lord needs them,' and he will send them at once.' He went out of Jericho, with a multitude following him, and many blind people were healed, and he approached Jerusalem, greatly enriched with merchandise.

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The Church Fathers1 voice

Origen of Alexandria

Catena Aurea by Aquinas (253)

Whence also, when He ascended into heaven, He gave command to His disciples that they should loose sinners, for which also He gave them the Holy Spirit. But being loosed, and making progress, and being nourished by the Divinity of the Word, they are held worthy to be sent back to the place whence they were taken, but no more to their former labours, but to preach to them the Son of God, and this is what He signifies when He says, And straightway He will send them.

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Gill

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

Saying unto them, go into the village over against you,.... Munster's Hebrew Gospel reads, "before you"; not Jerusalem, as some have thought, for that would never be called a village; though the Ethiopic version reads it, "the city"; but rather Bethany, which was near to Bethphage, and is mentioned with it; though the Jews say (u), the name of the village was Nob, and was near to Jerusalem, and own, that Christ had an ass from hence, on which he rode to Jerusalem, and applied to himself the prophecy in Zec 9:

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

It is commonly said, "They that live on borrowing, live on sorrowing;" in this therefore, as in other things, Christ was a man of sorrows --that he had nothing of this world's goods but what was given him or lent him.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt - Asses and mules were in common use in Palestine: horses were seldom to be met with. Our blessed Lord takes every opportunity to convince his disciples that nothing was hidden from him: he informs them of the most minute occurrence; and manifested his power over the heart in disposing the owner to permit the ass to be taken away.

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Matthew (1856)

These verses contain a very remarkable passage in our Lord Jesus Christ’s life. They describe his public entry into Jerusalem when he came there for the last time, before he was crucified. There is something peculiarly striking in this incident in our Lord’s history. The narrative reads like the account of some royal conqueror’s return to his own city: “A very great multitude” accompanies him in a kind of triumphal procession. Loud cries and expressions of praise are heard around him: “All the city was moved.”

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Original language & word study

21 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
λέγων	legōn	saying	G3004 →
αὐτοῖς·	autois	to them;	G846 →
πορεύεσθε	poreuesthe	do go	G4198 →
εἰς	eis	into	G1519 →
τὴν	tēn	the	G3588 →
κώμην	kōmēn	village	G2968 →
τὴν	tēn	which [is]	G3588 →
κατέναντι	katenanti	in front	G2713 →
ὑμῶν.	humōn	of you.	G4771 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
εὐθέως	eutheōs	immediately	G2112 →
εὑρήσετε	heurēsete	you will find	G2147 →
ὄνον	onon	a donkey	G3688 →
δεδεμένην	dedemenēn	tied	G1210 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
πῶλον	pōlon	a colt	G4454 →
μετ᾽	met᾽	with	G3326 →
αὐτῆς·	autēs	her;	G846 →
λύσαντες	lusantes	having untied [them]	G3089 →
ἀγάγετέ	agagete	do bring [them]	G71 →
μοι.	moi	to Me.	G3165 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Matthew 26:18
He answered, “Go into the city to a certain man and tell him that the Teacher says, ‘My time is near. I will keep the Passover with My disciples at your house.’”
leads to
- Mark 14:13–16
  So He sent two of His disciples and told them, “Go into the city, and a man carrying a jug of water will meet you. Follow him,
- John 7:6
  Therefore Jesus told them, “Although your time is always at hand, My time has not yet come.
- John 17:1
  When Jesus had spoken these things, He lifted up His eyes to heaven and said, “Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son may glorify You.
- John 13:1
  It was now just before the Passover Feast, and Jesus knew that His hour had come to leave this world and return to the Father. Having loved His own who were in the world,…
- John 7:30
  So they tried to seize Him, but no one laid a hand on Him, because His hour had not yet come.

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