The Corner Stone

Saint Matthew - Chapter 21

The stone which the builders rejected. J-J Tissot

[42] Dicit illis Jesus : Numquam legistis in Scripturis : Lapidem quem reprobaverunt aedificantes, hic factus est in caput anguli : a Domino factum est istud, et est mirabile in oculis nostris?
Jesus saith to them: Have you never read in the Scriptures: The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner? By the Lord this has been done; and it is wonderful in our eyes.

[43] Ideo dico vobis, quia auferetur a vobis regnum Dei, et dabitur genti facienti fructus ejus.
Therefore I say to you, that the kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and shall be given to a nation yielding the fruits thereof.

[44] Et qui ceciderit super lapidem istum, confringetur : super quem vero ceciderit, conteret eum.
And whosoever shall fall on this stone, shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it shall grind him to powder.

[45] Et cum audissent principes sacerdotum et pharisaei parabolas ejus, cognoverunt quod de ipsis diceret.
And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they knew that he spoke of them.

[46] Et quaerentes eum tenere, timuerunt turbas : quoniam sicut prophetam eum habebant.
And seeking to lay hands on him, they feared the multitudes: because they held him as a prophet.

Totus tuus ego sum 

Et omnia mea tua sunt;

Tecum semper tutus sum:
Ad Jesum per Mariam