Quotes About Rejection

If anyone does not welcome you, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that town, as a testimony against them.”

“The Son of Man must suffer many things,” He said. “He must be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and He must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.”

But the people there refused to welcome Him, because He was heading for Jerusalem.

But if you enter a town and they do not welcome you, go into the streets and declare,

Whoever listens to you listens to Me; whoever rejects you rejects Me; and whoever rejects Me rejects the One who sent Me.”

After the master of the house gets up and shuts the door, you will stand outside knocking and saying, ëLord, open the door for us.í But he will reply, ëI do not know where you are from.í

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!

But one after another they all began to make excuses. The first one said, ëI have bought a field, and I need to go see it. Please excuse me.í

For I tell you, not one of those men who were invited will taste my banquet.í”

He longed to fill his belly with the pods the pigs were eating, but no one would give him a thing.

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

But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him to say, ëWe do not want this man to rule over us.í

At harvest time, he sent a servant to the tenants to collect his share of the fruit of the vineyard. But the tenants beat the servant and sent him away empty-handed.

So he sent another servant, but they beat him and treated him shamefully, sending him away empty-handed.

Then he sent a third, but they wounded him and threw him out.

ëWhat shall I do?í asked the owner of the vineyard. ëI will send my beloved son. Perhaps they will respect him.í

But when the tenants saw the son, they discussed it among themselves and said, ëThis is the heir. Let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.í

So they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them?

But Jesus looked directly at them and said, “Then what is the meaning of that which is written: ëThe stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstoneí?

When the scribes and chief priests realized that Jesus had spoken this parable against them, they sought to arrest Him that very hour. But they were afraid of the people.

And you will be hated by everyone because of My name.

And they said many other blasphemous things against Him.

but they kept shouting, “Crucify Him! Crucify Him!”

He was in the world, and though the world was made through Him, the world did not recognize Him.