and said to them, “Go into the village before you, and right away as you[a] enter into it you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever sat. Untie it and bring it.[b] And if anyone says to you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ say[c] ‘The Lord has need of it, and will send it here again at once.’” And they went away and found a colt tied at a door outside in the street, and they untied it.

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 11:2 Here “as” is supplied as a component of the participle (“enter”) which is understood as temporal
  2. Mark 11:2 *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  3. Mark 11:3 Some manuscripts omit “that” after “say” here; though understood to be present in the underlying Greek text, it introduces direct discourse here and is left untranslated, functioning much like English quotation marks

saying to them, “Go to the village ahead of you, and just as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, which no one has ever ridden.(A) Untie it and bring it here. If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ say, ‘The Lord needs it and will send it back here shortly.’”

They went and found a colt outside in the street, tied at a doorway.(B) As they untied it,

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