Matthew Poole and continuators on Matthew 21:3

3 And if any man say ought unto you, ye shall say, The Lord hath need of them, and straightway he will send them.

This Famous story of our Lords entrance into Ierusalem, is recorded by Mark and Luke also, by Mark, Ch. 11.1. By Luke, Ch. 19.29. There is little difference in their Relation of it thus far, afterwards we shall find more: I shall consider what they all say, that I may at once give the story perfect. Mark saith, Bethpage and Bethany, He saith, You shall find a Colt tyed, whereon never Man sate. Luke hardly varieth at all from Mark, at least in nothing considerable. Our Lord was come now very nigh Ierusalem, Bethany was but fifteen Furlongs from Ierusalem, that was about two miles wanting an eighth part. Ioh. 11.18▪ it was the Town of Lazarus, Ioh. 11.1. Matthew names only Bethpage, which was a place at the same distance, at the Foot of the Mount of Olives, so called from the plenty of Olive-Trees growing there; this Mount was betwixt Ierusalem and Bethpage: It is like our Saviour was at both these Towns, for Mark and Luke nameth both, from one of them he sendeth two of his Disciples, to a Village near hand; telling them, they should there find, at their Entrance in, an Ass tyed with a Colt, on which yet never Man sate. Mark and Luke only mention the Colt, because Christ rode only upon the Colt. Matthew mentions the Ass, for the fulfilling of the Prophecy, of which we shall hear in the next Verses. Loose them, and bring them to me: And if any Man say ought to you (which he knew they would, and Mark and Luke tell us they did) You shall say, the Lord hath need of him. Not our Lord, but the Lord of Heaven and Earth; whose are the Cattel upon a thousand Hills, hath need of him, not for any Weariness; he who had Travelled on foot from Galilee to Bethany, could have gone the other two miles: But that he might enter into Ierusalem, as was Prophecied of him, Zech. 9.9. And he will straightway send him. The words are so, as may be understood as a Promise of Christ to send him back, but it is more likely they are intended, as an assurance to the Disciples, that the owners would make no Difficulty to send them. These Instructions (considered with the Success) were an evident Argument of Christ's Divine Nature. Who could tell all particular Circumstances, and also which way the Heart of man would incline.