Matthew 21:8 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

A large part of the crowd spread their clothing on the roadway; others cut branches from trees and spread them [also] on the roadway.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And a very great multitude spread their garments in the way; others cut down branches from the trees, and strawed them in the way.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And most of the crowd kept spreading their garments on the road, and others kept cutting branches from the trees and scattering them on the road.

American Standard Version (1901)

And the most part of the multitude spread their garments in the way; and others cut branches from the trees, and spread them in the way.

Common English Bible

Now a large crowd spread their clothes on the road. Others cut palm branches off the trees and spread them on the road.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Then a very numerous crowd spread their garments on the way. But others cut branches from the trees and scattered them on the way.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And a very great multitude spread their garments in the way: and others cut boughs from the trees, and strewed them in the way:

Matthew 21:8 Cross References

Matthew 21:7

They brought the donkey and its colt and spread their clothing on them, and Jesus mounted the colt.

Mark 11:8

Many people spread their clothing on the roadway, while others spread leafy branches, which they had cut from the fields.

Luke 19:36

And as He rode [along], people spread their clothing on the roadway.

John 12:13

[So], they took branches from palm trees and went out to meet Him, shouting, “Hosanna [Note: See Matt. 21:9 for the meaning of this word], may He, the King of Israel, be praised, for He comes in the name [i.e., by the authority] of the Lord!”