⁴² Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures:

“‘The stone the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone;
the Lord has done this,
and it is marvelous in our eyes’?

⁴³ “Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit. ⁴⁴ Anyone who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; anyone on whom it falls will be crushed.”⁴⁵ When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard Jesus’ parables, they knew he was talking about them. ⁴⁶ They looked for a way to arrest him, but they were afraid of the crowd because the people held that he was a prophet.” Matthew 21:42-46

I read the Gospel text, and am reminded of one of my favorite hymns.

The Church’s one foundation Is Jesus Christ her Lord, She is His new creation
By water and the Word.  From heaven He came and sought her To be His holy bride; With His own blood He bought her And for her life He died.

She is from every nation, Yet one o’er all the earth; Her charter of salvation,
One Lord, one faith, one birth; One holy Name she blesses, Partakes one holy food, And to one hope she presses, With every grace endued.

’Mid toil and tribulation, And tumult of her war, She waits the consummation
Of peace forevermore; Till, with the vision glorious, Her longing eyes are blest,
And the great Church victorious Shall be the Church at rest.

O happy ones and holy! Lord, give us grace that we Like them, the meek and lowly, On high may dwell with Thee: There, past the border mountains,
Where in sweet vales the Bride With Thee by living fountains Forever shall abide!

Pastor Dave