42. Jesus saith unto them. Did ye never read in the scriptures--
(Ps 118:22, 23).
The stone which the builders rejected, &c.--A bright Messianic
prophecy, which reappears in various forms
(Isa 28:16,
&c.), and was made glorious use of by Peter before the Sanhedrim
(Ac 4:11).
He recurs to it in his first epistle
(1Pe 2:4-6).
JFB.
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