New Revised Standard Version
They said, “The Lord needs it.”

Contemporary English Version
They answered, "The Lord needs it."

New American Bible
They answered, “The Master has need of it.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
But they said: Because the Lord hath need of him.

But they said: Because the Lord hath need of him.

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 10:35 If he called them gods to whom the word of God was spoken; and the scripture cannot be broken:

John 12:16 These things his disciples did not know at the first: but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written of him and that they had done these things to him.

2 Corinthians 8:9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that being rich he became poor for your sakes: that through his poverty you might be rich.