Luke 20:17

17 But he looked intently at them [and] said, "What then is this that is written: 'The stone which the builders rejected, this has become {the cornerstone}.'

Luke 20:17 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 20:17

And he beheld them
Looked very earnestly and wistly at them, speaking as it were by his looks, signifying, that verily so it would be, as he had said; that they would reject the Messiah, and put him to death, and bring utter ruin upon themselves, and deprive their posterity of many advantages and privileges:

and said, what is this then that is written;
that is, what else is the meaning of such a Scripture? is not the sense of that perfectly agreeable to what has been said, that the Messiah shall be rejected by the principal men among the Jews in church and state, and yet he shall be exalted, who will then take vengeance on them?

the stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the
head of the corner?
The passage is in ( Psalms 118:22 ) . (See Gill on Matthew 21:42).

Luke 20:17 In-Context

15 And they threw him out of the vineyard [and] killed [him]. What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them?

16 He will come and destroy those tenant farmers and give the vineyard to others." And [when they] heard [this], they said, "[May this] never happen!"

17 But he looked intently at them [and] said, "What then is this that is written: 'The stone which the builders rejected, this has become {the cornerstone}.'

18 Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, and [the one] on whom it falls--it will crush him!"

19 And the scribes and the chief priests sought to lay [their] hands on him at [that] same hour, and they were afraid of the people, for they knew that he had told this parable with reference to them.

Footnotes

• [a]. *Here "[and]" is supplied because the previous participle ("looked intently at") has been translated as a finite verb