Luke 19:34

Greek (Tischendorf 8th ed.)

English Translation

They said, "The Lord needs it."

World English Bible · Public Domain

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χρείαν

chreía

G5532

“necessity”

Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine

Appears 49× in the Greek New Testament
First appears at Matthew 3:14

Full Thayer's Definition

Origin: from the base of G5530 or G5534

TDNT: None

1. necessity, need 2. duty, business

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

9: words
8: distinct lemmas
Gospels: section

Shared distinctive vocabulary

χρείαν necessity G5532 occurs in 47 verses of the Greek New Testament. Also found in:

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse:

οἱ the G3588 ×2

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to Luke 19:34 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Zechariah 9:9 Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king comes to you! He is righteous, and having salvation; Lowly, and riding on a donkey, Even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
John 10:35 If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can't be broken),
John 12:16 His disciples didn't understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him, and that they had done these things to him.
2 Corinthians 8:9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.

Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

Commentary

Notes on Luke 19:34 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

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Bengel's Gnomon

Johann Albrecht Bengel

Luk 19:34. Εἶπον, they said) using the same words as they had been commanded to use.

Bengel's Gnomon of the New Testament — English translation (T&T Clark, Edinburgh, 1860) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

And as he went,.... Riding on the colt towards Jerusalem:

they spread their clothes in the way; not the disciples, for they had put their garments upon the colt; but the multitude, which either came with him from Jericho, and other parts, or that met him from Jerusalem, or both; see Mat 21:8 and so the Persic version here; "men put off their clothes and cast them in the way, that he might pass over then"; See Gill on Mat 21:8.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

It may here be asked, how the owners of the colt knew who the Lord was, of whom the disciples spoke? It may be answered, that perhaps they had already heard that Jesus of Nazareth, who the Jews though was to be their temporal king, was coming about that time to Jerusalem, and that they saw from their dress, or other external marks, that they were the disciples of Jesus. (Dionysius)

George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).

Lesson kit

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Luke, in the Gospels, opens this verse with 9 words (8 distinct Greek lemmas). Its most distinctive word is chreía (“necessity”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

The word chreía carries the sense “necessity.” How does it shape the verse?
Matthew 3:14 shares the word «necessity» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
“the” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
Reading how Bengel's Gnomon and John Gill's Exposition read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

These translations choose different wording for 4 words in this verse.
“the” occurs 2× in this single verse.
8 distinct Greek lemmas span 9 words in this verse.