111 Grk “and answering, he said.” This has been simplified in the translation to “He answered.” Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.
112 Grk “these.”
113 This statement amounts to a rebuke. The idiom of creation speaking means that even creation knows what is taking place, yet the Pharisees miss it. On this idiom, see Gen 4:10 and Hab 2:11.

In other versions

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

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

He answered, “I tell you, if they were to keep silent, the stones would cry out.”

He replied, “If they kept quiet, the stones along the road would burst into cheers!”

And he answered and said, “I tell you that if these keep silent, the stones will cry out!”

And 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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