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10 I am sure that you have read these words in the Bible:[a]

    “The builders refused to use a certain stone. [b]
    They thought that it had no value.
    But now that stone has become the most important stone at the corner of the building.
11 The Lord God did this.
    And we can see that he did something great.” ’

12 The Jewish leaders knew that Jesus had told this story about them. They were the bad farmers in the story. So they wanted to take hold of Jesus. But they were afraid of the crowd. So they left him and they went away.

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Footnotes

  1. 12:10 See Psalms 118:22-23.
  2. 12:10 The stone is like Jesus. The leaders did not think that he was important. But God decided that Jesus was important. In the end, he will rule over everybody and over everything.