Matthew 21:3

Jesus tells the disciples to say 'The Lord needs them' if anyone questions them, and the owner will release the animals. His authority and foreknowledge govern the whole event.

Cross-references · 16

• Acts 17:25neither is he served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and all things.
• 2 Cor 8:1–2Moreover, brothers, we make known to you the grace of God which has been given in the assemblies of Macedonia;
• John 3:35The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand.
• 2 Cor 8:9For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.
• Ps 50:10–11For every animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock on a thousand hills.
• Ezra 1:5Then the heads of fathers’ households of Judah and Benjamin, the priests, and the Levites, all whose spirit God had stirred to go up rose up to build Yahweh’s house which is in Jerusalem.
• Ps 24:1A Psalm by David. The earth is Yahweh’s, with its fullness; the world, and those who dwell therein.
• Hag 2:8–9The silver is mine, and the gold is mine,’ says Yahweh of Armies.
• Ezra 7:27Blessed be Yahweh, the God of our fathers, who has put such a thing as this in the king’s heart, to beautify Yahweh’s house which is in Jerusalem;
• John 17:2even as you gave him authority over all flesh, he will give eternal life to all whom you have given him.
• Ezra 1:1Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that Yahweh’s word by Jeremiah’s mouth might be accomplished, Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,
• 2 Cor 8:16But thanks be to God, who puts the same earnest care for you into the heart of Titus.
• 1 Kgs 17:9“Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain you.”
• 1 Sam 10:26Saul also went to his house to Gibeah; and the army went with him, whose hearts God had touched.
• 1 Chr 29:14–16But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly as this? For all things come from you, and of your own have we given you.
• Jas 1:17Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

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