Luke 20:18
Everyone who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but he on whom it falls will be crushed.”
Whosoever shall fall upon that stone shall be broken; but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.
Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, but it will crush whomever it falls on to dust.”
Every one that falleth on that stone shall be broken to pieces; but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will scatter him as dust.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- shall fall
- This is an allusion to the Jewish mode of stoning. "The place of stoning was twice as high as a man. From the top of this one of the witnesses struck the culprit on the loins, and felled him to the ground: if he died of this, well; if not, the other witness threw a stone upon his heart," etc. Our Lord seems to refer not only to the dreadful crushing of the Jews by the Romans, but also to their general dispersion to the present day.
- Isaiah 8:14, 15; Daniel 2:34, 35, 44, 45; Zechariah 12:3; Matthew 21:34; 1 Thessalonians 2:16