Lukas 19:31

31 And if someone asks you, Why are you untying it?—you will say this: HaAdon has need of it.

Lukas 19:31 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 19:31

And if any man ask you, why do ye loose [him]?
&c.] As our Lord, being God omniscient, knew this question would be asked by the owners, and therefore prepares his disciples with an answer to it:

thus shall ye say unto him, because the Lord hath need of him.
The Syriac and Persic versions read "our Lord", yours, and ours; probably the owners of the colt might be such as knew the Lord Jesus Christ, and by this way of speaking of him, knew, at once, who was meant, and so made no scruple of sending him, as Christ told them(See Gill on :) (See Gill on Mark 9:3)

Lukas 19:31 In-Context

29 And it came about as he came near to Beit-Pagey and Beit-Anyah, by the Mount of Olives, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach sent two of the talmidim,

30 Saying, Go to the shtetl ahead of you, in which entering you will find an AYIR (ZECHARYAH 9:9) having been tied, upon which none among Bnei Adam ever sat, and having untied it, bring it here.

31 And if someone asks you, Why are you untying it?—you will say this: HaAdon has need of it.

32 And having departed, the ones having been sent found it just as Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach told them.

33 And while untying the AYIR, its owners said to them, Why are you untying the AYIR?