Day: August 28, 2025

Thursday, August 28, 2025

“This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner” (Acts 4:11 KJV).

Who are these “builders?” What have they done—and not done?

Re-read the Parable of the Wicked Husbandmen (Matthew 21:33-45; Mark 12:1-12; Luke 20:9-19). As the Lord Jesus knows, Israel’s religious leaders are making arrangements to kill Him so as to retain possession of the nation that is rightfully His! It would do us well to observe what was said at the conclusion of this parable. “Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord’s doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?” (Matthew 21:42). “And have ye not read this scripture; The stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner: This was the Lord’s doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?” (Mark 12:10,11). “And he beheld them, and said, What is this then that is written, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner?” (Luke 20:17).

Our understanding is further enhanced once we note how Christ’s listeners responded to the Parable of the Wicked Husbandmen. “And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they perceived that he spake of them. But when they sought to lay hands on him, they feared the multitude, because they took him for a prophet” (Matthew 21:45,46). “And they sought to lay hold on him, but feared the people: for they knew that he had spoken the parable against them: and they left him, and went their way” (Mark 12:12). “And the chief priests and the scribes the same hour sought to lay hands on him; and they feared the people: for they perceived that he had spoken this parable against them” (Luke 20:19).

As prophesied centuries before in Psalm 118:22, so came it to pass: “The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner.” Christ took this verse and applied it to Himself. Peter in today’s Scripture also points out how Christ fulfilled it as the “builders” rejected Him….