New Revised Standard Version
This took place to fulfill what had been spoken through the prophet, saying,

Contemporary English Version
So God's promise came true, just as the prophet had said,

New American Bible
This happened so that what had been spoken through the prophet might be fulfilled:

Douay-Rheims Bible
Now all this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying:

Now all this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying:

this.

Matthew 1:22 Now all this was done that it might be fulfilled which the Lord spoke by the prophet, saying:

Matthew 26:56 Now all this was done that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then the disciples, all leaving him, fled.

John 19:36,37 For these things were done that the scripture might be fulfilled: You shall not break a bone of him. . . .

saying.

Zechariah 9:9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Sion, shout for joy, O daughter of Jerusalem: BEHOLD THY KING will come to thee, the just and saviour: he is poor, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt, the foal of an ass.

John 12:15 Fear not, daughter of Sion: behold thy king cometh, sitting on an ass's colt.