Quotes About Rejection

They will do these things because they have not known the Father or Me.

I have given them Your word and the world has hated them; for they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

At this, they shouted, “Away with Him! Away with Him! Crucify Him!” “Shall I crucify your King?” Pilate asked. “We have no king but Caesar,” replied the chief priests.

The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified His servant Jesus. You handed Him over and rejected Him before Pilate, even though he had decided to release Him.

You rejected the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a murderer be released to you.

This Jesus is ëthe stone you builders rejected, which has become the cornerstone.í

He assumed his brothers would understand that God was using him to deliver them, but they did not.

This Moses, whom they had rejected with the words, ëWho made you ruler and judge?í is the one whom God sent to be their ruler and redeemer through the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

But our fathers refused to obey him. Instead, they rejected him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt.

When Saul arrived in Jerusalem, he tried to join the disciples, but they were all afraid of him, not believing that he was a disciple.

Then Paul and Barnabas answered them boldly: “It was necessary to speak the word of God to you first. But since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles.

So they shook the dust off their feet in protest against them and went to Iconium.

But when they opposed and insulted him, he shook out his garments and told them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent of it. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”

And he drove them away from the judgment seat.

For the crowd that followed him kept shouting, “Away with him!”

and saw the Lord saying to me, ëHurry! Leave Jerusalem quickly, because the people here will not accept your testimony about Me.í

The crowd listened to Paul until he made this statement. Then they lifted up their voices and shouted, “Rid the earth of him! He is not fit to live!”

Some of them were convinced by what he said, but others refused to believe.

Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.

But not all of them welcomed the good news. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our message?”

I ask instead, did Israel not understand? First, Moses says: “I will make you jealous by those who are not a nation; I will make you angry by a nation without understanding.”

But as for Israel he says: “All day long I have held out My hands to a disobedient and obstinate people.”

I ask then, did God reject His people? Certainly not! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.

God did not reject His people, whom He foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says about Elijah, how he appealed to God against Israel: