Mark 11:3-6
11:3 If anyone says to you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ say, ‘The Lord needs it 1 and will send it back here soon.’”
11:4 So 2 they went and found a colt tied at a door, outside in the street, and untied it.
11:5 Some people standing there said to them, “What are you doing, untying that colt?”
11:6 They replied as Jesus had told them, and the bystanders 3 let them go.
1 sn The custom called angaria allowed the impressment of animals for service to a significant figure.
2 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the implied result of previous action(s) in the narrative.
3 tn Grk “they”; the referent (the people mentioned in v. 5) has been specified in the translation for clarity.