Teks -- Mark 11:5 (NET)

11:5 Some people standing there said to them, “What are you doing, untying that colt?”

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Robertson: Mar 11:5 - Certain of those that stood there

Certain of those that stood there ( tines tōn ekei hestēkotōn ).

Perfect active participle, genitive plural. Bystanders. Luk 19:33 terms them "the owners thereof"(hoi kurioi autou ). The lords or masters of the colt. They make a natural protest.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Mar 11:3-6

Ver. 3-6. See Poole on "Mat 21:3" , &c. All along the story of our Saviour’ s life and actions we shall find certain indications of his Divine power and virtue: his knowing men’ s thoughts, and declarations of such his knowledge to them: his certain prediction of future contingencies, being able to tell persons such particulars as no man could know. How could he who was not God have told the disciples, that at their entrance into the village they should find a colt on which never man sat, that the owners would not resist strangers to take it away? Yet notwithstanding all this disciples very imperfectly believed him to be so, until he was risen from the dead. The time was not yet come when Christ would have this published, and till he gave them a power to believe it, i.e. to have a full persuasion of it, all these moral arguments were not sufficient to work in their hearts a full persuasion. The faith of the Christians of that time seemeth to have had these three gradations:

1. They believed him a great Prophet, that had received great power from God.

2. They owned him as the Messiah, as the Son of David, and now and then they would drop some expressions arguing some persuasions that he was the Son of God.

3. Last of all, they came to a firm persuasion that he was truly God, as well as man, after that he was risen from the dead, and declared with power to be such, as the apostle saith.

Yet what means imaginable could they have had more than,

1. A voice from heaven declaring it.

2. The Spirit descending in a visible shape.

3. The great miracles he had wrought by sea and land, commanding the winds and the waves, healing incurable diseases and all others in an instant without use of rational means, raising the dead, &c.

4. His telling their thoughts, foretelling future contingencies, &c.

Yet all these produced in the generality of the people no more than amazement and astonishment; and in the apostles themselves, rather a disposition to such a faith, or an opinion or suspicion of such a thing, than a firm and fixed persuasion concerning it.

Gill: Mar 11:5 - And certain of them that stood there // said unto them, what do ye loosing the colt

And certain of them that stood there,.... The Ethiopic version reads, who walked there; who were either standing hard by, or walking about the place, being inhabitants of it; and either the owners of the colt, or their servants, or both:

said unto them, what do ye loosing the colt? What do ye mean by it? do you intend to take the colt away? what business have you with it? what right have you to do so? and what is your end in it?