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

⁸ 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

⁸ 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

⁸ 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)

⁸ 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

⁸ 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

⁸ 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

⁸ 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!”