Jesus is the Rock

God’s Word Translation Genesis 31:45 Jacob took a stone and set it up as a marker. (the Israelites often set up altars to YHVH with stones)

New Living Translation Exodus 20:25 If you use stones to build my altar, use only natural, uncut stones. Do not shape the stones with a tool, for that would make the altar unfit for holy use.

NASB Exodus 24:12 Now the Lord said to Moses, “Come up to Me on the mountain and remain there, and I will give you the stone tablets with the law and the commandment which I have written for their instruction.” (the Living Word, written on tablets of stone)

NASB Numbers 20:8-12 (Moses struck the Rock before its time)

NASB Joshua 24:27 Joshua said to all the people, “Behold, this stone shall be for a witness against us, for it has heard all the words of the LORD which He spoke to us; thus it shall be for a witness against you, so that you do not deny your God.”

Aramaic Bible Psalm 61:2 From the ends of the Earth I call to you! In the agitation of my heart you have raised me up upon a rock and you have comforted me.

NASB Psalm 118:22 The stone which the builders rejected Has become the chief corner stone.

NASB Isaiah 26:4 Trust in the Lord forever, For in God the Lord we have an everlasting Rock.

NASB Isaiah 28:16 Therefore thus says the Lord God, “Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a tested stone, A costly cornerstone for the foundation, firmly placed. He who believes in it will not be disturbed.

NASB Habakkuk 2:11 Surely the stone will cry out from the wall, And the rafter will answer it from the framework.

NASB Matthew 16:18 I also say to you that you are Peter (Cephas), and upon this rock (Petra) I will build My church; and the gates of Hades will not overpower it.

NASB Luke 19:40 Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to Him, “Teacher, rebuke Your disciples.” But Jesus answered, “I tell you, if these become silent, the stones will cry out!

NASB Acts 4:11 He is the stone which was rejected by you, the builders, but which became the chief corner stone.

NASB Revelation 2:17 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, to him I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and a new name written on the stone which no one knows but he who receives it (parallels Isaiah 62:2 and 65:15).