19:34

“The Lord needs it,” they answered: The two disciples responded to the owners just as Jesus had told them to in 19:31b. You should translate in the same way here. The context implies that the owners then allowed the two disciples to take the donkey. Mark 11:6 makes this explicit. In many languages it may be helpful to make it explicit here, as well. For example:

The ⌊two⌋ disciples replied, “The Lord needs it.” ⌊Then its owners permitted them(dual) to borrow it⌋.

they answered: In Greek, the phrase that the Berean Standard Bible translates as they answered comes before the quotation. The Good News Translation, like the Berean Standard Bible, places this phrase after the quotation. Place it where it would be natural in your language.

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