he beheld them Rather, looking fixedly on them, to add solemnity to His reference to their own Scriptures.

that is written He here refers them to the very Psalm from which the Hosanna of the multitude had been taken.

The stone which the builders rejected This is a quotation from Psalms 118:22, comp. Isaiah 28:16. The stone is regarded both as a foundation-stone, and a stone at the angle of the building, binding the two walls together. These words made a deep impression on St Peter (1 Peter 2:7-8).

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