Luke 19:31

31 If anyone asks you, 'Why are you untying it?' say this: 'The Lord 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 As He approached Bethphage and Bethany, at the place called the Mount of Olives, He sent two of the disciples

30 and said, "Go into the village ahead of you. As you enter it, you will find a young donkey tied there, on which no one has ever sat. Untie it and bring it here.

31 If anyone asks you, 'Why are you untying it?' say this: 'The Lord needs it.' "

32 So those who were sent left and found it just as He had told them.

33 As they were untying the young donkey, its owners said to them, "Why are you untying the donkey?"