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Luke 20:18 - Meaning and Application
Understand how this verse speaks to what you're facing and how to apply it today
Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, but it will crush whomever it falls on to dust.” "
Luke 20:18
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
16 He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give the vineyard to others.” When they heard that, they said, “May that never be!”
17 But he looked at them and said, “Then what is this that is written, ‘The stone which the builders rejected was made the chief cornerstone’?
18 Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, but it will crush whomever it falls on to dust.”
19 The chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him that very hour, but they feared the people—for they knew he had spoken this parable against them.
20 They watched him and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.
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Luke 20:1
"On one of those days, as he was teaching the people in the temple and preaching the Good News, the priests and scribes came to him with the elders."
Luke 20:2
"They asked him, “Tell us: by what authority do you do these things? Or who is giving you this authority?”"
Luke 20:3
"He answered them, “I also will ask you one question. Tell me:"
Luke 20:4
"the baptism of John, was it from heaven, or from men?”"
Luke 20:5
"They reasoned with themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Why didn’t you believe him?’"
Luke 20:6
"But if we say, ‘From men,’ all the people will stone us, for they are persuaded that John was a prophet.”"
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