Luke 19:40

Geneva Bible (1560)

But he answered, and sayd vnto them, I tell you, that if these should holde their peace, the stones would crie.

📖 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 shall crie out of the wall, and the beame out of the timber shal answere it.
• Isa 55:12 : 12 Therefore ye shall go out with ioy, and be led forth with peace: the mountaines and the hilles shall breake foorth before you into ioye, and all the trees of the fielde shall clap their handes.
• Matt 21:15-16 : 15 But when the chiefe priestes and Scribes sawe the marueiles that hee did, and the children crying in the Temple, and saying, Hosanna to the Sonne of Dauid, they disdained, 16 And said vnto him, Hearest thou what these say? And Iesus said vnto them, Yea: read ye neuer, By the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast made perfite the praise?
• Ps 96:11 : 11 Let the heauens reioyce, and let the earth be glad: let the sea roare, and all that therein is.
• Ps 98:7-9 : 7 Let the sea roare, and all that therein is, the world, and they that dwell therein. 8 Let the floods clap their hands, and let the mountaines reioyce together 9 Before the Lord: for he is come to iudge the earth: with righteousnesse shall hee iudge the world, and the people with equitie.
• Ps 114:1-8 : 1 When Israel went out of Egypt, and the house of Iaakob from the barbarous people, 2 Iudah was his sanctification, and Israel his dominion. 3 The Sea sawe it and fled: Iorden was turned backe. 4 The mountaines leaped like rams, and the hils as lambes. 5 What ailed thee, O Sea, that thou fleddest? O Iorden, why wast thou turned backe? 6 Ye mountaines, why leaped ye like rams, and ye hils as lambes? 7 The earth trembled at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Iaakob, 8 Which turneth the rocke into waterpooles, and the flint into a fountaine of water.
• Matt 3:9 : 9 And thinke not to say with your selues, We haue Abraham to our father: for I say vnto you, that God is able euen of these stones to raise vp children vnto Abraham.
• Matt 27:45 : 45 Now from ye sixt houre was there darkenesse ouer all the land, vnto the ninth houre.
• Matt 27:51-54 : 51 And behold, the vayle of the Temple was rent in twaine, from the top to the bottome, and the earth did quake, & the stones were cloue. 52 And the graues did open themselues, and many bodies of the Saintes, which slept, arose, 53 And came out of the graues after his resurrection, and went into the holy citie, and appeared vnto many. 54 When the Centurion, and they that were with him watching Iesus, saw the earthquake, and the thinges that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truely this was the Sonne of God.