Mark 11:5

5 The bystanders said to them, "What are you doing, untying that colt?"

Mark 11:5 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 11:5

And certain of them that stood there
The Ethiopic version reads, who walked there; who were either standing hard by, or walking about the place, being inhabitants of it; and either the owners of the colt, or their servants, or both:

said unto them, what do ye loosing the colt?
What do ye mean by it? do you intend to take the colt away? what business have you with it? what right have you to do so? and what is your end in it?

Mark 11:5 In-Context

3 If anyone asks you, `Why are you doing this?' tell him, `The Lord needs it,' and he will send it here right away."
4 They went off and found a colt in the street tied in a doorway, and they untied it.
5 The bystanders said to them, "What are you doing, untying that colt?"
6 They gave the answer Yeshua had told them to give, and they let them continue.
7 They brought the colt to Yeshua and threw their robes on it, and he sat on it.
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