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

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40 “I tell you,” he replied, “if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out.”(A)

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11 For (A)the stone will cry out from the wall,
    and the beam from the woodwork respond.

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11 The stones(A) of the wall will cry out,
    and the beams of the woodwork will echo it.

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12 (A)“For you shall go out in joy
    and be led forth in peace;
(B)the mountains and the hills before you
    shall break forth into singing,
    and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

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12 You will go out in joy(A)
    and be led forth in peace;(B)
the mountains and hills
    will burst into song(C) before you,
and all the trees(D) of the field
    will clap their hands.(E)

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And do not presume to say to yourselves, (A)‘We have Abraham as our father,’ for I tell you, God is able from (B)these stones to raise up children for Abraham.

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And do not think you can say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’(A) I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham.

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15 (A)But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying out in the temple, (B)“Hosanna to the Son of David!” they were indignant, 16 and they said to him, “Do you hear what these are saying?” And Jesus said to them, “Yes; (C)have you never read,

(D)“‘Out of the mouth of (E)infants and nursing babies
    you have prepared praise’?”

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15 But when the chief priests and the teachers of the law saw the wonderful things he did and the children shouting in the temple courts, “Hosanna to the Son of David,”(A) they were indignant.(B)

16 “Do you hear what these children are saying?” they asked him.

“Yes,” replied Jesus, “have you never read,

“‘From the lips of children and infants
    you, Lord, have called forth your praise’[a]?”(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 21:16 Psalm 8:2 (see Septuagint)

11 Let (A)the heavens be glad, and let (B)the earth rejoice;
    let (C)the sea roar, and all that fills it;

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11 Let the heavens rejoice,(A) let the earth be glad;(B)
    let the sea resound, and all that is in it.

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Tremble at the Presence of the Lord

114 When (A)Israel went out from Egypt,
    the house of Jacob from (B)a people of strange language,
Judah became his (C)sanctuary,
    Israel his dominion.

(D)The sea looked and fled;
    (E)Jordan turned back.
(F)The mountains skipped like rams,
    the hills like lambs.

What (G)ails you, O sea, that you flee?
    O Jordan, that you turn back?
O mountains, that you skip like rams?
    O hills, like lambs?

(H)Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord,
    at the presence of the God of Jacob,
who turns (I)the rock into (J)a pool of water,
    (K)the flint into a spring of water.

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Psalm 114

When Israel came out of Egypt,(A)
    Jacob from a people of foreign tongue,
Judah(B) became God’s sanctuary,(C)
    Israel his dominion.

The sea looked and fled,(D)
    the Jordan turned back;(E)
the mountains leaped(F) like rams,
    the hills like lambs.

Why was it, sea, that you fled?(G)
    Why, Jordan, did you turn back?
Why, mountains, did you leap like rams,
    you hills, like lambs?

Tremble, earth,(H) at the presence of the Lord,
    at the presence of the God of Jacob,
who turned the rock into a pool,
    the hard rock into springs of water.(I)

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(A)Let the sea roar, and (B)all that fills it;
    (C)the world and those who dwell in it!
Let the rivers (D)clap their hands;
    let (E)the hills sing for joy together
before the Lord, for he comes
    to (F)judge the earth.
He will judge the world with righteousness,
    and the peoples with equity.

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Let the sea(A) resound, and everything in it,
    the world, and all who live in it.(B)
Let the rivers clap their hands,(C)
    let the mountains(D) sing together for joy;
let them sing before the Lord,
    for he comes to judge the earth.
He will judge the world in righteousness
    and the peoples with equity.(E)

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51 And behold, (A)the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. And (B)the earth shook, and the rocks were split. 52 The tombs also were opened. And many bodies of (C)the saints (D)who had fallen asleep were raised, 53 and coming out of the tombs after his resurrection they went into (E)the holy city and appeared to many. 54 (F)When the centurion and those who were with him, (G)keeping watch over Jesus, saw the earthquake and what took place, they were filled with awe and said, (H)“Truly this was the Son[a] of God!”

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 27:54 Or a son

51 At that moment the curtain of the temple(A) was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook, the rocks split(B) 52 and the tombs broke open. The bodies of many holy people who had died were raised to life. 53 They came out of the tombs after Jesus’ resurrection and[a] went into the holy city(C) and appeared to many people.

54 When the centurion and those with him who were guarding(D) Jesus saw the earthquake and all that had happened, they were terrified, and exclaimed, “Surely he was the Son of God!”(E)

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 27:53 Or tombs, and after Jesus’ resurrection they

if by (A)turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, (B)making them an example of (C)what is going to happen to the ungodly;[a]

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  1. 2 Peter 2:6 Some manuscripts an example to those who were to be ungodly

if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes,(A) and made them an example(B) of what is going to happen to the ungodly;(C)

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The Death of Jesus

45 Now from the sixth hour[a] there was darkness over all the land[b] until the ninth hour.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 27:45 That is, noon
  2. Matthew 27:45 Or earth
  3. Matthew 27:45 That is, 3 p.m.

The Death of Jesus(A)

45 From noon until three in the afternoon darkness(B) came over all the land.

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