17 But he looked straight at them and said: “What, then, does this mean where it is written: ‘The stone that the builders rejected, this has become the chief cornerstone’?*+ 18 Everyone falling on that stone will be shattered.+ As for anyone on whom it falls, it will crush him.”

23 but we preach Christ executed on the stake, to the Jews a cause for stumbling but to the nations foolishness.+