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And when they draw near to Jerusalem, to Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount of Olives, he sends two of his disciples,
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and says to them, Go into the village which is over against you, and immediately on entering into it ye will find a colt tied, upon which no [child] of man has ever sat: loose it and lead it [here].
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And if any one say to you, Why do ye this? say, The Lord has need of it; and straightway he sends it hither.
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And they departed, and found a colt bound to the door without at the crossway, and they loose him.
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And some of those who stood there said to them, What are ye doing, loosing the colt?
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And they said to them as Jesus had commanded. And they let them [do it].
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And they led the colt to Jesus, and cast their clothes upon it, and he sat on it;
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and many strewed their clothes on the way, and others cut down branches from the trees [and went on strewing them on the way].
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And those going on before and those following cried out, Hosanna! blessed [be] he that comes in [the] Lord's name.