'Rejected' in the Bible

But the Pharisees and the lawyers [who were experts in the Mosaic Law] annulled and set aside God’s purpose for themselves, not having been baptized by John.

saying, “The Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected [as the Messiah] by the elders and chief priests and scribes (Sanhedrin, Jewish High Court), and be put to death, and on the third day be raised up [from death to life].”

But he who denies Me before men will be denied in the presence of the angels of God.

But first He must suffer many things and be repudiated and rejected and considered unfit [to be the Messiah] by this [unbelieving] generation.

But Jesus looked at them and said, “What then is [the meaning of] this that is written:‘The [very] Stone which the builders rejected,this became the chief Cornerstone’?