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562 B
562 B
rebuke your disciples
This can be translated as "tell your disciples to stop doing these things."
I tell you
Jesus said this to emphasize what he would say next.
If these were silent
This is a hypothetical situation. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-hypo) Some translators may need to make it clear what Jesus was implying when he said this: "No, I will not rebuke them, for if these people were to be silent…" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit)
the stones would cry out
"the stones would call out praises"