'Stone' in the Bible

Now there were six stone water jars there for Jewish ceremonial washing, each holding twenty or thirty gallons.

In the law Moses commanded us to stone to death such women. What then do you say?"

When they persisted in asking him, he stood up straight and replied, "Whoever among you is guiltless may be the first to throw a stone at her."

The Jewish leaders picked up rocks again to stone him to death.

Jesus said to them, "I have shown you many good deeds from the Father. For which one of them are you going to stone me?"

The Jewish leaders replied, "We are not going to stone you for a good deed but for blasphemy, because you, a man, are claiming to be God."

The disciples replied, "Rabbi, the Jewish leaders were just now trying to stone you to death! Are you going there again?"

Jesus, intensely moved again, came to the tomb. (Now it was a cave, and a stone was placed across it.)

Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of the deceased, replied, "Lord, by this time the body will have a bad smell, because he has been buried four days."

So they took away the stone. Jesus looked upward and said, "Father, I thank you that you have listened to me.

When Pilate heard these words he brought Jesus outside and sat down on the judgment seat in the place called "The Stone Pavement" (Gabbatha in Aramaic).

Now very early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been moved away from the entrance.