Luke 20:17

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But Jesus looked straight at them and said,“Then what is the meaning of that which is written:‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone’?

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  • Ps 118:22 : 22 The stone which the builders discarded has become the cornerstone.
  • Acts 4:11 : 11 This Jesus is the stone that was rejected by you, the builders, that has become the cornerstone.
  • Isa 28:16 : 16 Therefore, this is what the Sovereign LORD, says:“Look, I am laying a stone in Zion, an approved stone, set in place as a precious cornerstone for the foundation. The one who maintains his faith will not panic.
  • Mark 3:5 : 5 After looking around at them in anger, grieved by the hardness of their hearts, he said to the man,“Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored.
  • Mark 10:23 : 23 Then Jesus looked around and said to his disciples,“How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!”
  • Mark 12:10 : 10 Have you not read this scripture:‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.
  • Luke 19:41 : 41 Jesus Weeps for Jerusalem under Judgment Now when Jesus approached and saw the city, he wept over it,
  • Luke 22:37 : 37 For I tell you that this scripture must be fulfilled in me,‘And he was counted with the transgressors.’ For what is written about me is being fulfilled.”
  • Luke 22:61 : 61 Then the Lord turned and looked straight at Peter, and Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said to him,“Before a rooster crows today, you will deny me three times.”
  • Luke 24:44 : 44 Jesus’ Final Commission Then he said to them,“These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled.”
  • John 15:25 : 25 Now this happened to fulfill the word that is written in their law,‘They hated me without reason.’
  • Zech 3:9 : 9 As for the stone I have set before Joshua– on the one stone there are seven eyes. I am about to engrave an inscription on it,’ says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies,‘to the effect that I will remove the iniquity of this land in a single day.
  • Matt 21:42 : 42 Jesus said to them,“Have you never read in the scriptures:‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. This is from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?
  • 1 Pet 2:7-8 : 7 So you who believe see his value, but for those who do not believe, the stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone, 8 and a stumbling-stone and a rock to trip over. They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.

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    38But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves,‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and get his inheritance!’

    39So they seized him, threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him.

    40Now when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?”

    41They said to him,“He will utterly destroy those evil men! Then he will lease the vineyard to other tenants who will give him his portion at the harvest.”

    42Jesus said to them,“Have you never read in the scriptures:‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. This is from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?

    43For this reason I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit.

    44The one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, and the one on whom it falls will be crushed.”

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    7But those tenants said to one another,‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him and the inheritance will be ours!’

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    18Everyone who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, and the one on whom it falls will be crushed.”

    19Then the experts in the law and the chief priests wanted to arrest him that very hour, because they realized he had told this parable against them. But they were afraid of the people.

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    22The stone which the builders discarded has become the cornerstone.

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    11This Jesus is the stone that was rejected by you, the builders, that has become the cornerstone.

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    20because you have been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone.

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    4So he sent another slave to them again. This one they struck on the head and treated outrageously.