And have ye not read this scripture: The stone that those who build rejected, this came to be into the head of the corner.

And while Jesus was in Bethany [Note: This was a small village fewer than two miles east of Jerusalem], sitting at the dinner table in the house of Simon, the man with an infectious skin disease [Note: This man had probably been healed by now], a woman with an alabaster [i.e., stone] jar of very expensive perfume came to Him, broke the jar and poured the perfume on His head.

And Jesus said to him, "Do you see these great buildings? Not [one] stone will be left here on [another] stone that will not be thrown down!"

And again he sent to them another bondman; and at him they threw stones, and struck him on the head, and sent him away with insult.

And they said to themselves, Who will roll away the stone for us from the door of the tomb???4 and looking up they saw that the stone was rolled away??or it was very great.

Then they looked up and saw that the stone had been rolled away. (It was a very large stone.)

And straight away the king sent out one of his armed men, and gave him an order to come back with the head: and he went and took off John's head in prison,

By itself the soil produces a crop: first the grass, then the head of grain, then the full grain in the head.

And whoever is a cause of trouble to one of these little ones who have faith in me, it would be better for him if a great stone was put round his neck and he was dropped into the sea.

And he got a linen cloth and, taking him down, put the linen cloth round him, and put him in a place for the dead which had been cut out of a rock; and a stone was rolled against the door.