3 If anyone asks you, `Why are you doing this?` say, `The Lord needs him;` and immediately he will send him back here."
4 They went away, and found a colt tied at the door outside in the open street, and they untied him.
5 Some of those who stood there asked them, "What are you doing, untying the colt?"
6 They said to them just as Jesus had said, and they let them go.
7 They brought the colt to Jesus, and threw their garments on him, and Jesus sat on him.
8 Many spread their garments on the way, and others were cutting down branches from the trees, and spreading them on the road.
9 Those who went in front, and those who followed, cried, "Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!
