Matthew 21:44
and he who is falling on this stone will be broken, and on whomsoever it may fall it will crush him to pieces.”
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In Context
45And the chief priests and the Pharisees having heard His allegories, knew that He speaks of them,
Cross References
Psalms 2:9You rule them with a scepter of iron, || You crush them as a vessel of a potter.”
Psalms 21:8Your hand comes to all Your enemies, || Your right hand finds Your haters.
Isaiah 8:14And He has been for a sanctuary, || And for a stone of stumbling, and for a rock of falling, || To the two houses of Israel, || For a trap and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Daniel 2:34You were looking until a stone has been cut out without hands, and it has struck the image on its feet, that [are] of iron and of clay, and it has broken them small;
Zechariah 12:3And it has come to pass in that day, || I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone to all the peoples, || All loading it are completely pressed down, || And gathered against it have been all nations of the earth.
Matthew 27:25and all the people answering said, “His blood [is] on us, and on our children!”
Matthew Henry on Matthew 21:34-46
The Parable of the Wicked Husbandmen. 33 Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country: 34 And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it. 35 And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another. 36 Again, he sent other servants more… Read the whole commentary →