He answered, “I tell you, if they keep silent, the very stones will cry out!”

The tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become bread.”

Now as Jesus was going out of the temple courts, one of his disciples said to him, “Teacher, look at these tremendous stones and buildings!”

you yourselves, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood and to offer spiritual sacrifices that are acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.