By What Authority?<\/strong><\/h2>\nLuke 20:1-8 (ESV) <\/b>
\n1 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0One day, as Jesus was teaching the people in the temple and preaching the gospel, the chief priests and the scribes with the elders came up
\n2 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0and said to him, \u201cTell us by what authority you do these things, or who it is that gave you this authority.\u201d
\n3 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0He answered them, \u201cI also will ask you a question. Now tell me,<\/span>
\n4 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0was the baptism of John from heaven or from man?\u201d<\/span>
\n5 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0And they discussed it with one another, saying, \u201cIf we say, \u2018From heaven,\u2019 he will say, \u2018Why did you not believe him?\u2019
\n6 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0But if we say, \u2018From man,\u2019 all the people will stone us to death, for they are convinced that John was a prophet.\u201d
\n7 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0So they answered that they did not know where it came from.
\n8 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0And Jesus said to them, \u201cNeither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
By What Action?<\/strong><\/h2>\nLuke 20:9-19 (ESV) <\/b>
\n9 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0And he began to tell the people this parable: \u201cA man planted a vineyard and let it out to tenants and went into another country for a long while.<\/span>
\n10 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0When the time came, he sent a servant to the tenants, so that they would give him some of the fruit of the vineyard. But the tenants beat him and sent him away empty-handed.<\/span>
\n11 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0And he sent another servant. But they also beat and treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty-handed.<\/span>
\n12 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0And he sent yet a third. This one also they wounded and cast out.<\/span>
\n13 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0Then the owner of the vineyard said, \u2018What shall I do? I will send my beloved son; perhaps they will respect him.\u2019<\/span>
\n14 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0But when the tenants saw him, they said to themselves, \u2018This is the heir. Let us kill him, so that the inheritance may be ours.\u2019<\/span>
\n15 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0And they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them?<\/span>
\n16 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0He will come and destroy those tenants and give the vineyard to others.\u201d<\/span> When they heard this, they said, \u201cSurely not!\u201d
\n17 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0But he looked directly at them and said, \u201cWhat then is this that is written:<\/span> \u201c\u2018The stone that the builders rejected<\/span> has become the cornerstone\u2019?<\/span><\/span><\/span>
\n18 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, and when it falls on anyone, it will crush him.\u201d<\/span>
\n19 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0The scribes and the chief priests sought to lay hands on him at that very hour, for they perceived that he had told this parable against them, but they feared the people.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nJeremiah 7:25-26 (ESV) <\/b>
\n25 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0From the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt to this day, I have persistently sent all my servants the prophets to them, day after day.
\n26 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0Yet they did not listen to me or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck. They did worse than their fathers.<\/p>\nPsalm 118:22-23 (ESV) <\/b>
\n22 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.<\/span>
\n23 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0This is the LORD\u2019s doing; it is marvelous in our eyes.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\nDeuteronomy 32:4 (ESV) <\/b>
\n4 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0\u201cThe Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice.<\/span> A God of faithfulness and without iniquity,<\/span> just and upright is he.<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\nIsaiah 28:16 (ESV) <\/b>
\n16 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0therefore thus says the Lord GOD<\/span>, \u201cBehold, I am the one who has laid as a foundation in Zion,<\/span> a stone, a tested stone,<\/span> a precious cornerstone, of a sure foundation:<\/span> \u2018Whoever believes will not be in haste.\u2019<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\nEphesians 2:19-21 (ESV) <\/b>
\n19 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,
\n20 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone,
\n21 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord.<\/p>\nIsaiah 8:13-15 (ESV) <\/b>
\n13 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0But the LORD of hosts, him you shall honor as holy. Let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.
\n14 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0And he will become a sanctuary and a stone of offense and a rock of stumbling to both houses of Israel, a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
\n15 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0And many shall stumble on it. They shall fall and be broken; they shall be snared and taken.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n