And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.
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Gill's Exposition
Saying, if thou hadst, known, even thou,.... As well as other cities; or who hast been so long a flourishing city, the metropolis of the nation, the seat of the ancient kings of Judah; yea, the city…
Barnes' Notes
The stones would ...cry out - It is “proper” that they should celebrate my coming. Their acclamations “ought” not to be suppressed. So joyful is the event which they celebrate - the coming of the…
Adam Clarke
If these should hold their peace, the stones would - cry out - Of such importance is my present conduct to you and to others, being expressly predicted by one of your own prophets, Zac 9:9, as…
We have here the same account of Christ's riding in some sort of triumph (such as it was) into Jerusalem which we had before in Matthew and Mark; let us therefore here only observe,
I. Jesus Christ…
Cambridge Bible
the stones would immediately cry out There seems to be an allusion to the passage "For the stone shall cry out of the wall," which occurs amid denunciations of destruction on covetousness and cruelty…
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