The Living Stone
I Peter 2:4
What does it mean when Peter describes Jesus as “a living stone”? Peter could simply be alluding to Jesus’s resurrection while also setting up his “spiritual house” metaphor of 2:5. Perhaps less obvious is that Peter’s use of Psalm 33 and the term “stone” point toward Jesus being not only the believer’s example for suffering but actually God himself.
Immediately preceding 1 Peter 2:4, Peter quotes Psalm 33:9, telling the believers to “long for the pure milk of the word . . . if you have tasted the kindness of the Lord” (2:2–3 NASB). Just a few verses before Psalm 33:9, the psalmist writes, “I sought the Lord, and he heard me and delivered me from all my sojournings. Come [proselthate] to him and be enlightened, and your faces will never be put to shame” (Ps 33:5–6 LXX).
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