Luke 19:40 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

⁴⁰ But He answered them, “I tell you, if these people remain quiet [about me], [then] the stones will shout [about it].”

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴⁰ 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

⁴⁰ He replied, I tell you that if these keep silent, the very stones will cry out. [Hab. 2:11.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴⁰ And he answered and said, I tell you that, if these shall hold their peace, the stones will cry out.

Common English Bible

⁴⁰ He answered, “I tell you, if they were silent, the stones would shout.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴⁰ 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

⁴⁰ 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

Matthew 27:45

Now from noon until three o’clock in the afternoon there was darkness over all the land.

Matthew 3:9

and quit thinking to yourselves, we claim Abraham as our forefather, because I tell you, God is able to make Abraham’s children out of these stones.

Luke 19:41

And when Jesus got close and saw the city [of Jerusalem], He cried over it,

2 Peter 2:6

and if God also condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by reducing them to ashes, thereby condemning them to catastrophic destruction, and making them an example to other ungodly people in the future;