11 Bible Verses about Rejection Of Christ

Have you not read this Scripture: "'The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone;

And behold, all the city came out to meet Jesus, and when they saw him, they begged him to leave their region.

Jesus said to them, "Have you never read in the Scriptures: "'The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; this was the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes'?

Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us?" And they took offense at him.

When they heard these things, all in the synagogue were filled with wrath.

And they rose up and drove him out of the town and brought him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, so that they could throw him down the cliff.

But first he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.

But they all cried out together, "Away with this man, and release to us Barabbas"--

He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him.

I have come in my Father's name, and you do not receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him.

The one who rejects me and does not receive my words has a judge; the word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day.