Matthew 21:3

New Living Translation

If anyone asks what you are doing, just say, ‘The Lord needs them,’ and he will immediately let you take them.”

Cross References

1 Kings 17:9

“Go and live in the village of Zarephath, near the city of Sidon. I have instructed a widow there to feed you.”

Ezra 1:1

In the first year of King Cyrus of Persia, the Lord fulfilled the prophecy he had given through Jeremiah. He stirred the heart of Cyrus to put this proclamation in writing and to send it throughout his kingdom:

Ezra 1:5

Then God stirred the hearts of the priests and Levites and the leaders of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin to go to Jerusalem to rebuild the Temple of the Lord.

Ezra 7:27

Praise the Lord, the God of our ancestors, who made the king want to beautify the Temple of the Lord in Jerusalem!

Psalm 24:1

The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it. The world and all its people belong to him.

Matthew 21:2

“Go into the village over there,” he said. “As soon as you enter it, you will see a donkey tied there, with its colt beside it. Untie them and bring them to me.

Matthew 21:4

This took place to fulfill the prophecy that said,

John 17:2

For you have given him authority over everyone. He gives eternal life to each one you have given him.

John 3:35

The Father loves his Son and has put everything into his hands.

Acts 17:25

and human hands can’t serve his needs—for he has no needs. He himself gives life and breath to everything, and he satisfies every need.

2 Corinthians 8:16

But thank God! He has given Titus the same enthusiasm for you that I have.

2 Corinthians 8:9

You know the generous grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. Though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that by his poverty he could make you rich.

James 1:17

Whatever is good and perfect is a gift coming down to us from God our Father, who created all the lights in the heavens. He never changes or casts a shifting shadow.

1 Samuel 10:26

When Saul returned to his home at Gibeah, a group of men whose hearts God had touched went with him.