because he loves our nation, and even built our synagogue.”

They will say, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish!’

Woe to you! You build the tombs of the prophets whom your ancestors killed.

Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot, people were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building;

So you testify that you approve of the deeds of your ancestors, because they killed the prophets and you build their tombs!

Then he said, ‘I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.

For which of you, wanting to build a tower, doesn’t sit down first and compute the cost to see if he has enough money to complete it?

He is like a man building a house, who dug down deep, and laid the foundation on bedrock. When a flood came, the river burst against that house but could not shake it, because it had been well built.

They got up, forced him out of the town, and brought him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, so that they could throw him down the cliff.

But the person who hears and does not put my words into practice is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. When the river burst against that house, it collapsed immediately, and was utterly destroyed!”

But Jesus looked straight at them and said, “Then what is the meaning of that which is written: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone’?