Acts 4:12

"He is ‘the stone which was regarded as worthless by you, the builders, which has become the head of the corner.’"

Key Reflection

This verse emphasizes Jesus' role as a rejected yet exalted Messiah. Just as construction workers would discard a stone deemed unfit, so too did the religious leaders reject Jesus, but God elevated him to a position of authority and significance, making Him the cornerstone of salvation.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Verse 12. Neither is there salvation. The word salvation properly denotes any preservation, or keeping anything in a safe state; a preserving it from harm. It signifies, also, deliverance from any evil of body or mind; from pain, sickness, danger, etc., Ac 7:25. But it is in the New Testament applied particularly to the work which the Messiah came to do, "to seek and to save that which was lost," Lu 19:10. This work refers primarily to a deliverance of the soul from sin, Mt 1:21; Ac 5:31; Lu 4:18; Ro 8:21; Ga 5:1.

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