If anyone says anything to you, you shall say, ‘The Lord needs them,’ and he will send them at once.”
And if any man say ought unto you,.... As, what business have you with the ass and colt? why do you loose them? as certain persons, the owners of them did, as Mark and Luke relate; ye shall say, the Lord hath need of them: he that is our Lord, and your Lord, and the Lord of these creatures, and of all things else, wants...
Verse 3. The Lord hath need of them. This means no more than the master has need of them. The word lord often means no more than master as opposed to servant, . The word is sometimes used in the Bible as applied to God, or as a translation of the name JEHOVAH.
And if any [man] say ought unto you, ye shall say, The Lord hath need of them; and straightway he will send them. (a) He that will say anything to you will let them go, that is, the ass and the colt.