en_tn/luk/19/39.md

rebuke your disciples

AT: "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. 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-hypo, rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit)

the stones would cry out

"the stones would call out praises"