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The Perfect Example—ChristChoosing the Best Way of Life
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10. How did Jesus Christ become “a stone of stumbling and a rock-mass of offense”?
10 Because the prominent Jewish religious leaders refused to accept the Son of God as their ideal and to build their hopes for everlasting life on him, they lost out on the grand privilege of being Kingdom heirs. Jesus Christ had warned them: “The [repentant] tax collectors and the [repentant] harlots are going ahead of you into the kingdom of God.” (Matthew 21:31) The course taken by those religious leaders did not prevent Jesus from becoming “the head of the corner,” the crowning stone of “a spiritual house.”
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The Perfect Example—ChristChoosing the Best Way of Life
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They recognized that Jesus Christ was the extremely valuable foundation cornerstone that the Father had laid in heavenly Zion, fulfilling the words of Psalm 118:22
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The Perfect Example—ChristChoosing the Best Way of Life
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“But to those not believing, ‘the identical stone that the builders rejected has become the head of the corner,’
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