Luke 19:40

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And he said in answer, I say to you, if these men keep quiet, the very stones will be crying out.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ ἀποκριθεὶς εἶπεν αὐτοῖς, Λέγω ὑμῖν ὅτι, ἐὰν οὗτοι σιωπήσωσιν, οἱ λίθοι κεκράξονται.

Transliteration

And apokritheis he eipen to them, I legō to you that, if these siōpēsōsin, the lithoi will kekraxontai.

Grammar Details

• *apokritheis*: aorist passive participle, nominative, masculine, singular - having answered
• *eipen*: aorist active, 3rd person singular - said
• *legō*: present active, 1st person singular - I say
• *siōpēsōsin*: aorist active subjunctive, 3rd person plural - should be silent
• *lithoi*: nominative, masculine, plural - stones
• *kekraxontai*: future middle, 3rd person plural - will cry out

Word Meanings

• *apokritheis*: having answered/responded
• *legō*: I say/tell/declare
• *siōpēsōsin*: should be silent/keep quiet/become silent
• *lithoi*: stones/rocks
• *kekraxontai*: will cry out/shout/exclaim

Referenced Verses

• Hab 2:11 : 11 For the stone will give a cry out of the wall, and it will be answered by the board out of the woodwork.
• Isa 55:12 : 12 For you will go out with joy, and be guided in peace: the mountains and the hills will make melody before you, and all the trees of the fields will make sounds of joy.
• Matt 21:15-16 : 15 But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the works of power which he did, and the children crying out in the Temple, Glory to the son of David, they were angry and said to him, 16 Have you any idea what these are saying? And Jesus said to them, Yes: have you not seen in the Writings, From the lips of children and babies at the breast you have made your praise complete?
• Ps 96:11 : 11 Let the heavens have joy and the earth be glad; let the sea be thundering with all its waters;
• Ps 98:7-9 : 7 Let the sea be thundering, with all its waters; the world, and all who are living in it; 8 Let the streams make sounds of joy with their hands; let the mountains be glad together, 9 Before the Lord, for he has come as judge of the earth; judging the world in righteousness, and giving true decisions for the peoples.
• Ps 114:1-8 : 1 When Israel came out of Egypt, the children of Jacob from a people whose language was strange to them; 2 Judah became his holy place, and Israel his kingdom. 3 The sea saw it, and went in flight; Jordan was turned back. 4 The mountains were jumping like goats, and the little hills like lambs. 5 What was wrong with you, O sea, that you went in flight? O Jordan, that you were turned back? 6 You mountains, why were you jumping like goats, and you little hills like lambs? 7 Be troubled, O earth, before the Lord, before the God of Jacob; 8 Who made the rock into a water-spring, and the hard stone into a fountain.
• Matt 3:9 : 9 And say not to yourselves, We have Abraham for our father; because I say to you that God is able from these stones to make children for Abraham.
• Matt 27:45 : 45 Now from the sixth hour it was dark over all the land till the ninth hour.
• Matt 27:51-54 : 51 And the curtain of the Temple was parted in two from end to end; and there was an earth-shock; and the rocks were broken; 52 And the resting-places of the dead came open; and the bodies of a number of sleeping saints came to life; 53 And coming out of their resting-places, after he had come again from the dead, they went into the holy town and were seen by a number of people. 54 Now the captain and those who were with him watching Jesus, when they saw the earth-shock and the things which were done, were in great fear and said, Truly this was a son of God.