And some were talking about the Temple, how it was made fair with beautiful stones and with offerings, but he said,
Make clear by your acts that your hearts have been changed; and do not say to yourselves, We have Abraham for our father: for I say to you that God is able from these stones to make children of Abraham.
And when he was going out of the Temple, one of his disciples said to him, Master, see, what stones and what buildings!
And in the same way, these are they who are planted on the stones, who, when the word has come to their ears, straight away take it with joy;
And some went on the stones, where it had not much earth; and it came up straight away, because the earth was not deep:
And all the time, by day and by night, in the place of the dead, and in the mountains, he was crying out and cutting himself with stones.
And that which went on the stones, this is he who, hearing the word, straight away takes it with joy;
And some of the seed went among the stones, where it had not much earth, and straight away it came up because the earth was not deep:
And say not to yourselves, We have Abraham for our father; because I say to you that God is able from these stones to make children for Abraham.
And the Evil One came and said to him, If you are the Son of God, give the word for these stones to become bread.
So I will make Samaria into a field and the plantings of a vine-garden: I will send its stones falling down into the valley, uncovering its bases.
And in the hearing of his countrymen and the army of Samaria he said, What are these feeble Jews doing? will they make themselves strong? will they make offerings? will they get the work done in a day? will they make the stones which have been burned come again out of the dust?
The people went about taking it up from the earth, crushing it between stones or hammering it to powder, and boiling it in pots, and they made cakes of it: its taste was like the taste of cakes cooked with oil.
See that all the people of the land are forced out from before you, and put to destruction all their pictured stones, and all their metal images, and all their high places:
For your servants take pleasure in her stones, looking with love on her dust.
Our sons are like tall young plants; and our daughters like the shining stones of a king's house;
And the woman was clothed in purple and bright red, with ornaments of gold and stones of great price and jewels; and in her hand was a gold cup full of evil things and her unclean desires;
Gold, and silver, and stones of great price, and jewels, and delicate linen, and robes of purple and silk and red; and perfumed wood, and every vessel of ivory, and every vessel made of fair wood, and of brass, and iron, and stone;
Saying, Sorrow, sorrow for the great town, she who was clothed in delicate linen, and purple, and red; with ornaments of gold and stones of great price and jewels!
The bases of the wall of the town had ornaments of all sorts of beautiful stones. The first base was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald;
His hands are as rings of gold ornamented with beryl-stones; his body is as a smooth plate of ivory covered with sapphires.
And I will send it out, says the Lord of armies, and it will go into the house of the thief and into the house of him who takes a false oath by my name: and it will be in his house, causing its complete destruction, with its woodwork and its stones.
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