¹⁵ And numbers of them, falling on the stone, will be broken, and will be taken in the net.

⁴⁴ Any man falling on this stone will be broken, but he on whom it comes down will be crushed to dust.

¹³ For this cause the word of the Lord will be to them rule after rule, line after line, here a little, there a little; so that they may go on their way, and falling back may be broken, and taken in the net.

¹⁰ We go on our way, like blind men feeling for the wall, even like those who have no eyes: we are running against things in daylight as if it was evening; our place is in the dark like dead men.

⁶ And a blessing will be on him who has no doubts about me.

¹⁴ Let them be: they are blind guides. And if a blind man is guiding a blind man, the two will go falling into a hole together.

¹⁷ But he, looking on them, said, Is it not in the Writings, The stone which the builders put on one side, the same has become the chief stone of the building?

¹⁸ Everyone falling on that stone will be broken, but the man on whom the stone comes down will be crushed to dust.

⁶⁶ Because of what he said, a number of the disciples went back and would no longer go with him.

³² Why? Because they were not searching for it by faith, but by works. They came up against the stone which was in the way;

²³ But we give the good news of Christ on the cross, a hard thing to the Jews, and a foolish thing to the Gentiles;