Matthew 21:3

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

If anyone says anything to you, just say this, ‘The Lord needs them.’ And he will send them immediately.”

Cross References

1 Kings 17:9

“Go now to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and live there, for I have commanded a widow there to feed you.”

Ezra 1:1

In the first year of King Cyrus of Persia, to fulfill the word of the Lord from the mouth of Jeremiah, the Lord stirred up the spirit of King Cyrus of Persia so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and also in writing, saying:

Ezra 1:5

Then the heads of the families of Judah and Benjamin and the priests and the Levites—everyone whose spirit God had stirred—got ready to go up and rebuild the house of the Lord in Jerusalem.

Ezra 7:27

Blessed be the Lord, the God of our ancestors, who put such a thing as this into the heart of the king to glorify the house of the Lord in Jerusalem

Psalm 24:1

The earth is the Lord’s and all that is in it, the world, and those who live in it,

Matthew 21:2

saying to them, “Go into the village ahead of you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied and a colt with her; untie them and bring them to me.

Matthew 21:4

This took place to fulfill what had been spoken through the prophet:

John 17:2

since you have given him authority over all people, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him.

John 3:35

The Father loves the Son and has placed all things in his hands.

Acts 17:25

nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mortals life and breath and all things.

2 Corinthians 8:16

But thanks be to God, who put in the heart of Titus the same eagerness for you that I myself have.

2 Corinthians 8:9

For you know the generous act of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that by his poverty you might become rich.

James 1:17

Every generous act of giving, with every perfect gift, is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

1 Samuel 10:26

Saul also went to his home at Gibeah, and with him went warriors whose hearts God had touched.