Luke 19:40 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

He replied, I tell you that if these keep silent, the very stones will cry out. [Hab. 2:11.]

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

He answered, “I tell you, if they were silent, the stones would shout.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

And he said to them, "I tell you, that if these will keep silent, the stones themselves will cry out."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Luke 19:40 Cross References

Psalm 96:11

Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice; let the sea roar, and all that fills it;

Isaiah 55:12

“For you shall go out in joy, and be led forth in peace; the mountains and the hills before you shall break forth into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

Habakkuk 2:11

For the stone will cry out from the wall, and the beam from the woodwork respond.

Matthew 27:45

Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.

Matthew 3:9

and do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father’; for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children to Abraham.

Luke 19:41

And when he drew near and saw the city he wept over it,

2 Peter 2:6

if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction and made them an example to those who were to be ungodly;