Mark 11:5

Mar 11:5-6 . Mk. tells the story very circumstantially: how the people of the place challenged their action; how they repeated the message of Jesus; and the satisfactory result. Mt. (Mat 21:6 ) is much more summary.

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(5) And certain of them that stood there.—This again, though perhaps implied in our Lord’s words, is not reported by St. Matthew.

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And certain of them that stood there,.... The Ethiopic version reads, who walked there; who were either standing hard by, or walking about the place, being inhabitants of it; and either the owners of the colt, or their servants, or both:

said unto them, what do ye loosing the colt? What do ye mean by it? do you intend to take the colt away? what business have you with it? what right have you to do so? and what is your end in it?

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5 And certain of them that stood there said unto them, What do ye, loosing the colt?

Ver. 5. {See Trapp on "Luk 19:33"}

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5. τῶν ἐκεῖ ἑστηκότων. See on Mar 9:1. Lk. says that they were the owners, which is probable; but in a village everyone knows everyone, and bystanders would see that the disciples were not the owners, and would ask their business. That the owners were Lazarus and his sisters is not a probable conjecture, even if the village is Bethany. Lk. at any rate would mention this; and none of the family would have questioned disciples of Christ in this way.

Τί ποιεῖτε λύοντες τ. πῶλον; What do ye, loosing the colt? (R.V.). “What do you mean by it?” Cf. Act 21:13, τί ποιεῖτε κλαίοντες; “What mean ye by weeping?”

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5. Τί ποιεῖτε λύοντες τ. πῶλον;—What are you doing, loosing the colt? This τί ποιεῖτε we use very frequently in asking the meaning of an action; only we leave it by itself. What are you doing? we say. It asks the question, what the act really is, the outward form of which appears in the participial clause. Οἱ δὲ εἶπαν αὐτοῖς, καθὼς εἶπεν ὁ Ἰησοῦς—And they told them, as Jesus said.

εἶπεν, said, instead of ἐνετείλατο, commanded, Tisch. Treg. WH. RV. אBCL Δ 1, 28, 124, 209, one ms. Lat. Vet. Egyptt.

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