40And 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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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.
For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof.
Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 28-40)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 was forward and willing to suffer and die for us. He went forward, bound in the spirit, to Jerusalem , knowing very well the things that should befal him there , and yet he went before, ascending up to…
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