¹⁷ Jesus looked directly at them and asked, “Then what is the meaning of that which is written:

¹⁶ So this is what the Sovereign Lord says:

¹¹ Jesus is

⁷ Now to you who believe, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe,^(A)

⁸ and,

They stumble because they disobey the message—which is also what they were destined for.^(E)

¹⁰ Haven’t you read this passage of Scripture:

⁴² Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures:

⁹ See, the stone I have set in front of Joshua!^(A) There are seven eyes^[a](B) on that one stone,^(C) and I will engrave an inscription on it,’ says the Lord Almighty, ‘and I will remove the sin^(D) of this land in a single day.

³⁷ It is written: ‘And he was numbered with the transgressors’^[a];^(A) and I tell you that this must be fulfilled in me. Yes, what is written about me is reaching its fulfillment.”