And they brought the colt to Jesus and threw their cloaks over it, and he sat on it. And many people spread their cloaks on the road, and others spread[a] leafy branches they[b] had cut from the fields. And those who went ahead and those who were following were shouting,

“Hosanna!
Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord![c]

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 11:8 Here the verb “spread” is an understood repetition of the verb earlier in this verse
  2. Mark 11:8 Here the participle “had cut” has been translated as a finite verb; it agrees in number, gender, and case with “others,” so “they’ has been supplied to indicate this
  3. Mark 11:9 A quotation from Ps 118:25–26