'Stones' in the Bible
and do not imagine that you can say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our forefather,' for I tell you that God can raise up descendants for Abraham from these stones.
So the Tempter came and said, "If you are the Son of God, command these stones to turn into loaves."
but the vine-dressers seized the servants, and one they cruelly beat, one they killed, one they pelted with stones.
And constantly, day and night, he remained among the tombs or on the hills, shrieking, and mangling himself with sharp stones.
As He was leaving the Temple, one of His disciples exclaimed, "Look, Rabbi, what wonderful stones! what wonderful buildings!"
Live lives which shall prove your change of heart; and do not begin to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our forefather,' for I tell you that God can raise up descendants for Abraham from these stones.
"I tell you," He replied, "that if *they* became silent, the very stones would cry out."
When some were remarking about the Temple, how it was embellished with beautiful stones and dedicated gifts, He said,
Thereupon they took up stones with which to stone Him, but He hid Himself and went away out of the Temple.
And whether the building which any one is erecting on that foundation be of gold or silver or costly stones, of timber or hay or straw--
If, however, the service that proclaims death--its code being engraved in writing upon stones--came with glory, so that the children of Israel could not look steadily on the face of Moses because of the brightness of his face--a vanishing brightness;
And be yourselves also like living stones that are being built up into a spiritual house, to become a holy priesthood to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
The wall of the city had twelve foundation stones, and engraved upon them were twelve names--the names of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb.
As for the foundation-stones of the city wall, which were beautified with various kinds of precious stones, the first was jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald, the fifth sardonyx, the sixth sardius,