42. Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: “ ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; the Lord has done this, and it is marvelous in our eyes’ ?
43. “Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit.
44. Anyone who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; anyone on whom it falls will be crushed.”
45. When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard Jesus’ parables, they knew he was talking about them.
46. They looked for a way to arrest him, but they were afraid of the crowd because the people held that he was a prophet.