Acts 4:11

The stone. This verse is a free quotation of Ps. 118:22. Some of the members of the Sanhedrin, to whom Peter was speaking, had heard Christ quote and apply these words to the skeptical Jews (Matt. 21:42-44). In their blindness they had then thought that they could defy Christ’s challenge and warning. Although by their calling they were builders of the church of Israel (see on Acts 7:38), they rejected the stone that God had chosen to be the chief Cornerstone (see Eph. 2:20). This same thought is a dominant note in one of Peter’s epistles, that the church is built of living stones upon the foundation of Jesus Christ as the “head of the corner” (1 Peter 2:6-8).