PREDICTIONS OF THE GOSPEL.

No one is a prophet in his own land. — Death and passion of Jesus.

— Persecution of the apostles.

— Impenitent cities.

— Ruin of the Temple and of Jerusalem.

— Curse upon the Pharisees. — My words shall not pass away.

— The cornerstone. — Parable of the murderous vineyard-keepers. — One single flock and one single shepherd. — Advent of Elijah. — Announcement of the Comforter.

— Second advent of the Christ.

— Precursory signs.

— Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy.

— Final judgment.

THE CORNERSTONE.

— Have you never read this in the Scriptures: The stone that the builders rejected has become the chief stone of the corner? It was the Lord who did this; and our eyes behold it with admiration. Therefore I declare to you that the kingdom of God shall be taken from you and shall be given to a people who will draw fruits from it. He who lets himself fall upon that stone shall be broken to pieces, and it shall crush the one upon whom it falls. Having heard these words from Jesus, the princes of the priests recognized that it was of them that the same Jesus was speaking. They wished then to seize him, but they were afraid of the people who considered him a prophet. (Saint Matthew, chapter XXI, vv. 42 to 46.)

— The word of Jesus became the cornerstone, that is, the stone of consolidation of the new edifice of faith, raised upon the ruins of the old. The Jews, the princes of the priests and the Pharisees having rejected that stone, it crushed them, just as it shall crush those who, afterward, failed to recognize it, or disfigured its meaning in favor of their ambitions.