Luke 19:31

31 And if any one asks you, `Why are you untying the colt?' simply say, `The Master needs it.'"

Luke 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)

Luke 19:31 In-Context

29 And when he was come near Bethphage and Bethany, at the Mount called the Oliveyard, He sent two of the disciples on in front,

30 saying to them, "Go into the village facing you. On entering it you will find an ass's foal tied up which no one has ever yet ridden: untie it, and bring it here.

31 And if any one asks you, `Why are you untying the colt?' simply say, `The Master needs it.'"

32 So those who were sent went and found things as He had told them.

33 And while they were untying the colt the owners called out, "Why are you untying the colt?"