42 Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: ‘The stone which the builders rejectedhas become the cornerstone.This is the Lord’s doing,and it is marvelous in our eyes’?
43 “Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken from you and given to a nation bearing its fruits.
44 Whoever falls on this stone will be broken to pieces. But on whomever it falls, it will crush him.”
45 When the chief priests and Pharisees heard His parables, they perceived that He was speaking of them.
46 But as they tried to arrest Him, they feared the crowds, because they held Him as a prophet.