Matthew 21:42

Verses 42,43. Jesus saith, etc. Jesus, having led them to admit the justice of the great principle on which God was about to act towards them, proceeds to apply it by a text of Scripture, declaring that this very thing which they admitted in the case of the husbandmen, had been predicted respecting themselves. This passage is found in Ps 118:22,23. It was first applicable to David; but no less to Jesus. The stone. The figure is taken from building a house. The principal stone for size and beauty is that commonly laid as the corner stone. Which the builders rejected. On account of its want of beauty, or size, it was laid aside, or deemed unfit to be a corner-stone.