If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ say, ‘The Lord needs him;’ and immediately he will send him back here.”
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Mark 11:3 in context
Mark 11:1–6
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When they came near to Jerusalem, to Bethsphage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples
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and said to them, “Go your way into the village that is opposite you. Immediately as you enter into it, you will find a young donkey tied, on which no one has sat. Untie him and bring him.
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If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ say, ‘The Lord needs him;’ and immediately he will send him back here.”
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They went away, and found a young donkey tied at the door outside in the open street, and they untied him.
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Some of those who stood there asked them, “What are you doing, untying the young donkey?”
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They said to them just as Jesus had said, and they let them go.
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