Mark 11:8

Mark 11:8. Others leaves, and boughs, or, ‘layers of leaves,' one word in Greek. The common reading seems to have been an alteration for the sake of uniformity.

Which they had cut from the fields. This, which is the more correct expression, shows that those who did not spread their clothes in the way, went off from the nigh-way, in their zeal, to obtain a substitute. This minute stroke is peculiar to Mark, but corresponds with John 12:13, where the providing of palm branches is implied.