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

⁴⁰ He answered, “I tell you, if these were silent, the very stones would cry out.”

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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

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;