Matthew 21:44

Yes, and he who falls on this stone will be dashed to pieces, while anyone on whom it falls – it will scatter him as dust.”

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In The King James Version

And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.

In Context

43That, I tell you, is why the kingdom of God will be taken from you, and given to a nation that does produce the fruit of the kingdom.

45After listening to these parables, the chief priests and the Pharisees saw that it was about them that he was speaking;

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Cross References

Psalms 2:9You will break them with sceptre of iron, shatter them like pottery.”

Psalms 21:8Your hand will reach all your foes, your right hand, all who hate you.

Zechariah 12:3On that day that I will make Jerusalem a stone to be lifted up by all the peoples. All who lift it up will surely hurt themselves! And all the nations of the earth will be gathered together against it.

Matthew 27:25And all the people answered, “His blood be on our heads and on our children’s!”

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 →

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