Luke 19:40
New International Version
“I tell you,” he replied, “if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out.”

New Living Translation
He replied, “If they kept quiet, the stones along the road would burst into cheers!”

English Standard Version
He answered, “I tell you, if these were silent, the very stones would cry out.”

Berean Standard Bible
“I tell you,” He answered, “if they remain silent, the very stones will cry out.”

Berean Literal Bible
And answering He said, "I say to you that if these will be silent, the stones will cry out."

King James Bible
And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.

New King James Version
But He answered and said to them, “I tell you that if these should keep silent, the stones would immediately cry out.”

New American Standard Bible
Jesus replied, “I tell you, if these stop speaking, the stones will cry out!”

NASB 1995
But Jesus answered, “I tell you, if these become silent, the stones will cry out!”

NASB 1977
And He answered and said, “I tell you, if these become silent, the stones will cry out!”

Legacy Standard Bible
But Jesus answered and said, “I tell you, if these were silent, the stones will cry out!”

Amplified Bible
Jesus replied, “I tell you, if these [people] keep silent, the stones will cry out [in praise]!”

Christian Standard Bible
He answered, “I tell you, if they were to keep silent, the stones would cry out.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He answered, “I tell you, if they were to keep silent, the stones would cry out!”

American Standard Version
And he answered and said, I tell you that, if these shall hold their peace, the stones will cry out.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
He said to them, “I say to you that if these would be silent, the stones would be crying out loud.”

Contemporary English Version
But Jesus answered, "If they keep quiet, these stones will start shouting."

Douay-Rheims Bible
To whom he said: I say to you, that if these shall hold their peace, the stones will cry out.

English Revised Version
And he answered and said, I tell you that, if these shall hold their peace, the stones will cry out.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Jesus replied, "I can guarantee that if they are quiet, the stones will cry out."

Good News Translation
Jesus answered, "I tell you that if they keep quiet, the stones themselves will start shouting."

International Standard Version
He replied, "I tell you, if they were quiet, the stones would cry out!"

Literal Standard Version
and He answering said to them, “I say to you that if these will be silent, the stones will cry out!”

Majority Standard Bible
“I tell you,” He answered, “if they remain silent, the very stones will cry out.”

New American Bible
He said in reply, “I tell you, if they keep silent, the stones will cry out!”

NET Bible
He answered, "I tell you, if they keep silent, the very stones will cry out!"

New Revised Standard Version
He answered, “I tell you, if these were silent, the stones would shout out.”

New Heart English Bible
He answered them, "I tell you that if these were silent, the stones would cry out."

Webster's Bible Translation
And he answered and said to them, I tell you, that if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.

Weymouth New Testament
"I tell you," He replied, "that if *they* became silent, the very stones would cry out."

World English Bible
He answered them, “I tell you that if these were silent, the stones would cry out.”

Young's Literal Translation
and he answering said to them, 'I say to you, that, if these shall be silent, the stones will cry out!'

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Context
The Triumphal Entry
39But some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to Him, “Teacher, rebuke Your disciples!” 40“I tell you,” He answered, “if they remain silent, the very stones will cry out.” 41As Jesus approached Jerusalem and saw the city, He wept over it…

Cross References
Habakkuk 2:11
For the stones will cry out from the wall, and the rafters will echo it from the woodwork.

Luke 19:41
As Jesus approached Jerusalem and saw the city, He wept over it


Treasury of Scripture

And he answered and said to them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.

Psalm 96:11
Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof.

Psalm 98:7-9
Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein…

Psalm 114:1-8
When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language; …

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Luke 19
1. Of Zacchaeus a tax collector.
11. The ten minas.
28. Jesus rides into Jerusalem with triumph;
41. weeps over it;
45. drives the buyers and sellers out of the temple;
47. Teaching daily in it. The rulers seek to destroy him, but fear the people.














(40) If these should hold their peace.--Here, then, at the very moment when He foresaw most clearly His own approaching end, and the failure of all earthly hopes of the city over which He wept, our Lord accepted every word that disciples or multitude had uttered of Him as being in the fullest sense true.

The stones would immediately cry out.--The startling imagery had a precedent in the language of Habakkuk (Habakkuk 2:11), "The stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it."



Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
“I tell
Λέγω (Legō)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 1st Person Singular
Strong's 3004: (a) I say, speak; I mean, mention, tell, (b) I call, name, especially in the pass., (c) I tell, command.

you,”
ὑμῖν (hymin)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.

He answered,
ἀποκριθεὶς (apokritheis)
Verb - Aorist Participle Passive - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 611: From apo and krino; to conclude for oneself, i.e. to respond; by Hebraism to begin to speak.

“if
ἐὰν (ean)
Conjunction
Strong's 1437: If. From ei and an; a conditional particle; in case that, provided, etc.

they
οὗτοι (houtoi)
Demonstrative Pronoun - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3778: This; he, she, it.

remain silent,
σιωπήσουσιν (siōpēsousin)
Verb - Future Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 4623: To keep silence, be silent, either voluntarily or involuntarily. From siope; to be dumb; figuratively, to be calm.

the very
οἱ (hoi)
Article - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

stones
λίθοι (lithoi)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3037: A stone; met: of Jesus as the chief stone in a building. Apparently a primary word; a stone.

will cry out.”
κράξουσιν (kraxousin)
Verb - Future Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 2896: To cry aloud, shriek. A primary verb; properly, to 'croak' or scream, i.e. to call aloud.


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