{The most part of the multitude} (ho pleistos ochlos). See
11:20 for this same idiom, article with superlative, a true
superlative (Robertson, _Grammar_, p. 670). {In the way} (en t(8869)
hod(9369)). This the most of the crowd did. The disciples put their
garments on the asses. Note change of tenses (constative aorist
estr(9373)an, descriptive imperfects ekopton kai estr(936e)nuon
showing the growing enthusiasm of the crowd). When the colt had
passed over their garments, they would pick the garments up and
spread them again before.
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