Mark 11:8 - Exposition

Others cut down branches off the trees , etc. According to the best authorities, the words should be rendered, and others branches (or, leaves , for strewing ), which thy had cut from the fields ( ἄλλοι δὲ στοιβάδας κόψαντες ἐκ τῶν ἀγρῶν ). The branches were cut in the fields; and the smaller, leafy portions of them, suitable for their purpose, were carried out.