Luke 19:31

31 And if anyone asks you, 'Why are you untying [it]?' you will say this: 'The Lord has need of 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 it happened that when he drew near to Bethphage and Bethany, to the hill called [the Mount] of Olives, he sent two of the disciples,

30 saying, 'Go into the village in front of [you], in which [as you] enter you will find a colt tied, on which {no person has ever} sat, and untie it [and] bring [it].

31 And if anyone asks you, 'Why are you untying [it]?' you will say this: 'The Lord has need of it.'"

32 So those who were sent went [and] found [it] just as he had told them.

33 And [as] they were untying the colt, its owners said to them, 'Why are you untying the colt?'

Footnotes

• [a]. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation