Luke 19:40
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)““I tell you,” He answered, “if they remain silent, the very stones will cry out.””
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““I tell you,” He answered, “if they remain silent, the very stones will cry out.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.”
King James Version · Public Domain“And he answered and said, I tell you that, if these shall hold their peace, the stones will cry out.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and he answering said to them, `I say to you, that, if these shall be silent, the stones will cry out!'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Luke 19:40 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Psalms 96:11Let the heavens be glad and the earth rejoice; let the sea resound, and all that fills it.
- Psalms 98:7Let the sea resound, and all that fills it, the world, and all who dwell in it.
- Psalms 114:1When Israel departed from Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of foreign tongue,
- Isaiah 55:12You will indeed go out with joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.
- Habakkuk 2:11For the stones will cry out from the wall, and the rafters will echo it from the woodwork.
- Matthew 3:9And do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham.
- Matthew 21:15But the chief priests and scribes were indignant when they saw the wonders He performed and the children shouting in the temple courts, “Hosanna to the Son of David!”
- Matthew 27:45From the sixth hour until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land.
- Matthew 27:51At that moment the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth quaked and the rocks were split.
- 2 Peter 2:6if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction, reducing them to ashes as an example of what is coming on the ungodly;
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