Luke 19:40 Cross References

Luke 19:40

40: He replied, "If they kept quiet, the stones along the road would burst into cheers!"

The very stones in the walls of your houses cry out against you, and the beams in the ceilings echo the complaint.

You will live in joy and peace. The mountains and hills will burst into song, and the trees of the field will clap their hands!

Don't just say, 'We're safe--we're the descendants of Abraham.' That proves nothing. God can change these stones here into children of Abraham.

Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice! Let the sea and everything in it shout his praise!

The leading priests and the teachers of religious law saw these wonderful miracles and heard even the little children in the Temple shouting, "Praise God for the Son of David." But they were indignant
and asked Jesus, "Do you hear what these children are saying?Yes," Jesus replied. "Haven't you ever read the Scriptures? For they say, 'You have taught children and infants to give you praise.'"

When the Israelites escaped from Egypt--when the family of Jacob left that foreign land--
the land of Judah became God's sanctuary, and Israel became his kingdom.
The Red Sea saw them coming and hurried out of their way! The water of the Jordan River turned away.
The mountains skipped like rams, the little hills like lambs!
What's wrong, Red Sea, that made you hurry out of their way? What happened, Jordan River, that you turned away?

Let the sea and everything in it shout his praise! Let the earth and all living things join in.
Let the rivers clap their hands in glee! Let the hills sing out their songs of joy
before the LORD. For the LORD is coming to judge the earth. He will judge the world with justice, and the nations with fairness.

At that moment the curtain in the Temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. The earth shook, rocks split apart,
and tombs opened. The bodies of many godly men and women who had died were raised from the dead
after Jesus' resurrection. They left the cemetery, went into the holy city of Jerusalem, and appeared to many people.
The Roman officer and the other soldiers at the crucifixion were terrified by the earthquake and all that had happened. They said, "Truly, this was the Son of God!"

Later, he turned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into heaps of ashes and swept them off the face of the earth. He made them an example of what will happen to ungodly people.

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