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  • Matthew 21:5
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
    • 5 “Tell the daughter of Zion: ‘Look! Your king is coming to you,+ mild-tempered+ and mounted on a donkey, yes, on a colt, the offspring of a beast of burden.’”+

  • Matthew 21:5
    The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures
    • 5 Εἴπατε Tell YOU τῇ to the θυγατρὶ daughter Σιὼν of Zion Ἰδοὺ Look! ὁ The βασιλεύς king σου of you ἔρχεταί is coming σοι to you πραΰς mild-tempered καὶ and ἐπιβεβηκὼς having mounted ἐπὶ upon ὄνον ass καὶ and ἐπὶ upon πῶλον colt υἱὸν son of ὑποζυγίου. beast under yoke.

  • Matthew 21:5
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
    • 5 “TELL the daughter of Zion, ‘Look! Your King is coming to you,+ mild-tempered,+ and mounted upon an ass, yes, upon a colt, the offspring of a beast of burden.’”+

  • Matthew 21:5
    The Bible in Living English
    • 5 ‘Say to the daughter of Sion “Here is your king coming to you, meek, and mounted on an ass, and on a colt an ass’s foal”’ should be fulfilled.”

  • Matthew 21:5
    American Standard Version
    • 5 Tell ye the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, Meek, and riding upon an ass, And upon a colt the foal of an ass.

  • Matthew 21:5
    The Emphasized Bible
    • 5 Tell ye the daughter of Zion, Lo! thy King is coming unto thee, Meek and mounted upon an ass And upon a colt the foal of a toiling ass.

  • Matthew 21:5
    King James Version
    • 5 Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass.

  • Matthew
    Watch Tower Publications Index 1986-2026
    • 21:5 jy 238; w11 8/15 12; w99 8/1 14-15; gt 102; si 169; w89 11/1 8

  • Matthew
    Watch Tower Publications Index 1930-1985
    • 21:5 hs 165; g73 2/8 28; pm 269-272; ad 1156, 1357, 1685, 1692; w66 56, 451; g66 5/22 13; w64 456; bf 421; ns 254; w60 70; nh 141; w45 19; w34 214; w33 292; pp 159; w32 85

  • Matthew
    Research Guide for Jehovah’s Witnesses—2019 Edition
    • 21:5

      Jesus—The Way, p. 238

      The Watchtower,

      8/15/2011, p. 12

      8/1/1999, pp. 14-15

      11/1/1989, p. 8

      “All Scripture,” p. 169

  • Matthew Study Notes—Chapter 21
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
    • 21:5

      the daughter of Zion: Or “daughter Zion,” as some Bible translations say. In the Bible, cities are often personified as women or figuratively referred to using feminine terms. In this expression, “daughter” may refer to the city itself or to the people of the city. The name Zion was closely connected with the city of Jerusalem.

      mild-tempered: Or “humble.”​—See study note on Mt 5:5.

      on a donkey, yes, on a colt: Although two animals are mentioned at Mt 21:2, 7, the prophecy at Zec 9:9 refers to the king as riding only one animal.​—See study note on Mt 21:2.

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