Matthew 21:8
Good News Translation
A large crowd of people spread their cloaks on the road while others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road.

New Revised Standard Version
A very large crowd spread their cloaks on the road, and others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road.

Contemporary English Version
Many people spread clothes in the road, while others put down branches which they had cut from trees.

New American Bible
The very large crowd spread their cloaks on the road, while others cut branches from the trees and strewed them on the road.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And a very great multitude spread their garments in the way: and others cut boughs from the trees and strewed them in the way.

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And a very great multitude spread their garments in the way: and others cut boughs from the trees and strewed them in the way.

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Leviticus 23:40 And you shall take to you on the first day the fruits of the fairest tree, and branches of palm trees, and boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook: And you shall rejoice before the Lord your God.

John 12:13 Took branches of palm trees and went forth to meet him and cried Hosanna. Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord, the king of Israel.

Context
The Triumphal Entry
7And they brought the ass and the colt and laid their garments upon them and made him sit thereon. 8And a very great multitude spread their garments in the way: and others cut boughs from the trees and strewed them in the way. 9And the multitudes that went before and that followed cried, saying: Hosanna to the son of David: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord: Hosanna in the highest.…
Cross References
2 Kings 9:13
Then they made haste, and taking every man his garment, laid it under his feet, after the manner of a judgment seat, and they sounded the trumpet, and said: Jehu is king.

Matthew 21:7
And they brought the ass and the colt and laid their garments upon them and made him sit thereon.

Mark 11:8
And many spread their garments in the way: and others cut down boughs from the trees and strewed them in the way.

Luke 19:36
And as he went, they spread their clothes underneath in the way.

Matthew 21:7
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