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Bear fruits in keeping with repentance. And do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham.
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The devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.”
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and “‘On their hands they will bear you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone.’”
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O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!
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He answered, “I tell you, if these were silent, the very stones would cry out.”
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and tear you down to the ground, you and your children within you. And they will not leave one stone upon another in you, because you did not know the time of your visitation.”
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But if we say, ‘From man,’ all the people will stone us to death, for they are convinced that John was a prophet.”
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But he looked directly at them and said, “What then is this that is written: “‘The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone’?
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Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, and when it falls on anyone, it will crush him.”
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Jesus Foretells Destruction of the Temple
And while some were speaking of the temple, how it was adorned with noble stones and offerings, he said,
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“As for these things that you see, the days will come when there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.”
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And he withdrew from them about a stone's throw, and knelt down and prayed,
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Then he took it down and wrapped it in a linen shroud and laid him in a tomb cut in stone, where no one had ever yet been laid.
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And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb,