40 But He answered and said to them, “I tell you that if these should keep silent, (A)the stones would immediately 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 the stone will cry out from the wall,
And the beam from the timbers will answer it.

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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 “For(A) you shall go out with joy,
And be led out with peace;
The mountains and the hills
Shall (B)break forth into singing before you,
And (C)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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11 (A)Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad;
(B)Let the sea roar, and [a]all its fullness;

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  1. Psalm 96:11 all that is in it

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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and do not think to say to yourselves, (A)‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I say to you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.

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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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Let the sea roar, and all its fullness,
The world and those who dwell in it;
Let the rivers clap their hands;
Let the hills be joyful together
    before the Lord,
(A)For He is coming to judge the earth.
With righteousness He shall judge the world,
And the peoples with [a]equity.

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  1. Psalm 98:9 uprightness

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 Then, behold, (A)the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom; and the earth quaked, and the rocks were split, 52 and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised; 53 and coming out of the graves after His resurrection, they went into the holy city and appeared to many.

54 (B)So when the centurion and those with him, who were guarding Jesus, saw the earthquake and the things that had happened, they feared greatly, saying, (C)“Truly this was the Son of God!”

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

The Power of God in His Deliverance of Israel(A)

114 When (B)Israel went out of Egypt,
The house of Jacob (C)from a people [a]of strange language,
(D)Judah became His sanctuary,
And Israel His dominion.

(E)The sea saw it and fled;
(F)Jordan turned back.
(G)The mountains skipped like rams,
The little hills like lambs.
(H)What ails you, O sea, that you fled?
O Jordan, that you turned back?
O mountains, that you skipped like rams?
O little hills, like lambs?

Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord,
At the presence of the God of Jacob,
(I)Who turned the rock into a pool of water,
The flint into a fountain of waters.

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  1. Psalm 114:1 who spoke unintelligibly

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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15 But when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that He did, and the children crying out in the temple and saying, “Hosanna to the (A)Son of David!” they were [a]indignant 16 and said to Him, “Do You hear what these are saying?”

And Jesus said to them, “Yes. Have you never read,

(B)‘Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants
You have perfected praise’?”

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  1. Matthew 21:15 angry

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

and turning the cities of (A)Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly;

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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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Jesus Dies on the Cross(A)

45 (B)Now from the sixth hour until the ninth hour there was darkness over all the land.

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The Death of Jesus(A)

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

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