'Stone' in the Bible

and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down. For it is written, 'He will command his angels concerning you' and 'with their hands they will lift you up, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.'"

Is there anyone among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone?

Jesus said to them, "Have you never read in the scriptures: 'The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. This is from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes'?

The one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, and the one on whom it falls will be crushed."

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you! How often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would have none of it!

And he said to them, "Do you see all these things? I tell you the truth, not one stone will be left on another. All will be torn down!"

and placed it in his own new tomb that he had cut in the rock. Then he rolled a great stone across the entrance of the tomb and went away.

So they went with the soldiers of the guard and made the tomb secure by sealing the stone.

Suddenly there was a severe earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descending from heaven came and rolled away the stone and sat on it.

Have you not read this scripture: 'The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.

Jesus said to him, "Do you see these great buildings? Not one stone will be left on another. All will be torn down!"

After Joseph bought a linen cloth and took down the body, he wrapped it in the linen and placed it in a tomb cut out of the rock. Then he rolled a stone across the entrance of the tomb.

They had been asking each other, "Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance to the tomb?"

But when they looked up, they saw that the stone, which was very large, had been rolled back.

The devil said to him, "If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread."

and 'with their hands they will lift you up, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.'"

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you! How often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would have none of it!

They will demolish you -- you and your children within your walls -- and they will not leave within you one stone on top of another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God."

But if we say, 'From people,' all the people will stone us, because they are convinced that John was a prophet."

But Jesus looked straight at them and said, "Then what is the meaning of that which is written: 'The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone'?

Everyone who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, and the one on whom it falls will be crushed."

"As for these things that you are gazing at, the days will come when not one stone will be left on another. All will be torn down!"

They found that the stone had been rolled away from the tomb,

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.

This Jesus is the stone that was rejected by you, the builders, that has become the cornerstone.

When they had driven him out of the city, they began to stone him, and the witnesses laid their cloaks at the feet of a young man named Saul.

They continued to stone Stephen while he prayed, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!"

When both the Gentiles and the Jews (together with their rulers) made an attempt to mistreat them and stone them,

So since we are God's offspring, we should not think the deity is like gold or silver or stone, an image made by human skill and imagination.

just as it is written, "Look, I am laying in Zion a stone that will cause people to stumble and a rock that will make them fall, yet the one who believes in him will not be put to shame."

revealing that you are a letter of Christ, delivered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on stone tablets but on tablets of human hearts.

But if the ministry that produced death -- carved in letters on stone tablets -- came with glory, so that the Israelites could not keep their eyes fixed on the face of Moses because of the glory of his face (a glory which was made ineffective),

It contained the golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant covered entirely with gold. In this ark were the golden urn containing the manna, Aaron's rod that budded, and the stone tablets of the covenant.

So as you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but chosen and priceless in God's sight,

For it says in scripture, "Look, I lay in Zion a stone, a chosen and priceless cornerstone, and whoever believes in him will never be put to shame."

So you who believe see his value, but for those who do not believe, the stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,

The one who has an ear had better hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers, I will give him some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on that stone will be written a new name that no one can understand except the one who receives it.'

The rest of humanity, who had not been killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, so that they did not stop worshiping demons and idols made of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood -- idols that cannot see or hear or walk about.

Then one powerful angel picked up a stone like a huge millstone, threw it into the sea, and said, "With this kind of sudden violent force Babylon the great city will be thrown down and it will never be found again!

The city possesses the glory of God; its brilliance is like a precious jewel, like a stone of crystal-clear jasper.

The foundations of the city's wall are decorated with every kind of precious stone. The first foundation is jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald,