Matthew 21
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And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder–The Kingdom of God is here a Temple, in the erection of which a certain stone, rejected as unsuitable by the spiritual builders, is, by the great Lord of the House, made the >>738191
of the whole. On that Stone the builders were now "falling" and being "broken" ( Isaiah 8:15 ). They were sustaining great spiritual hurt; but soon that Stone should "fall upon them" and "grind them to powder" ( Daniel 2:34 Daniel 2:35 , Zechariah 12:2 )–in their corporate capacity, in the tremendous destruction of Jerusalem, but personally, as unbelievers, in a more awful sense still.