2007-06-28 08:18:18 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The Lord was actually speaking back the words of Hab 2:11 of the old testament.
This was a situation where the Lord was triumphantly entering into Jerusalem on the colt .. the multitude and the disciples were rejoicing and praising calling out Blessed is He who comes in the Name of the Lord...
The Pharisees asked the Lord to rebuke his disciples .. to tell them to be silent...
the Lord turn to them and said that if they will be silent then the stones will cry out..
I believe that the Lord was trying to tell the pharisees that these ones recognized Him for Who He is ... He is the Savior and worthy to be praised...they were doing the right thing by praising Him for who He was and that if they did not shout out their praise .. if humans will not do it.. then part of creation will... the stones will cry out.. in other words.. no kind of silencing or denial of Who the Lord was could stop him from being Just that.. God as a Man.. coming to die for mankind and bring man back to God's presence through Him.
2007-06-28 08:38:22 · answer #1 · answered by Broken Alabaster Flask 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
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Christians: Why did Jesus say the stones would cry out in Luke 19:40?
2015-08-20 13:12:08 · answer #2 · answered by Valaria 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Luke 19 40
2016-12-17 15:26:01 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Look at the context, and the verses following:
He answered, “I tell you, if they were to keep silent, the stones would cry out!”
As He approached and saw the city, He wept over it, saying, “If you knew this day what [would bring] peace—but now it is hidden from your eyes. For the days will come on you when your enemies will build an embankment against you, surround you, and hem you in on every side. They will crush you and your children within you to the ground, and they will not leave one stone on another in you, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation.”
Luke 19:40-44
The Pharisees thought that the crowd's words were sacrilegious and blasphemous. They didn't want someone challenging their power and authority, and they didn't want a revolt that would bring the Roman army down on them. So they asked Jesus to keep his people quiet. But Jesus said that if the people were quiet, the stones would immediately cry out (see Habakkuk 2:11). Habakkuk had prophesied the judgment of God upon Judah just before the fall of Jerusalem to the Babylonians in 586 b.c. He had said, "The stones of the wall will cry out" (niv) concerning all the sins the people rebelling against God had done. So Jesus' words may have a double meaning. Praise for the true Messiah could not be repressed, and the stones of the wall would bear witness to the city's rejection of him.
2007-06-28 08:44:01 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Luke 19:39,40
The Pharisees were indignant that Jesus should be publicly honored in this way. They suggested that He should rebuke his disciples. But Jesus answered that such an acclamation was inevitable. If the disciples wouldn't do it, the stones would! He thus rebuked the Pharisees for being more hard and unresponsive than the inanimate stones.
2007-06-28 08:24:37 · answer #5 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
And he answered and said unto them, "I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out."
Jesus was answering a question put to Him by the Pharisees, asking Him to rebuke His disciples. The stones in His answer are stumbling stones. Another words if the disciples did not teach and tell the peoples of Jesus's teachings, the people would become stumbling stones and not understand the truth.
2007-06-28 08:50:11 · answer #6 · answered by Lady 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If his followers didn't cry out then the rocks would because Jesus is so great. It was just a way of Jesus telling his followers they were recognizing the wonders and great things that God and Jesus had done enough. People weren't speaking up enough about God, so if people wouldn't do it the rocks would have to. It was mostly a metaphore.
2007-06-28 08:23:05 · answer #7 · answered by blue_girl 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Rocks Will Cry Out
2016-10-01 03:02:23 · answer #8 · answered by delsignore 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the Pharisees were telling Him (Jesus) to silence the people from saying "Hosanna in the highest"
And Jesus said, "Even if you silence them....the stones would cry out"
The entire creation knows it's Creator!
2007-06-28 08:22:12 · answer #9 · answered by primoa1970 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He didn't. He said that if his followers kept their peace then the rocks would cry out.
Romans 8:21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
2007-06-28 08:26:58 · answer #10 · answered by hisgloryisgreat 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋