¹⁴ “But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him to say, ‘We don’t want this man to be our king.’

²⁷ But those enemies of mine who did not want me to be king over them—bring them here and kill them in front of me.’”

⁷ Now to you who believe, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe,^(A)

⁸ and,

They stumble because they disobey the message—which is also what they were destined for.^(E)