Mark 12:10

Have you not read this scripture: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. ¹ 

Ps 118:22,23; Isa 28:16; Mt 12:3; Mt 19:4; Mt 21:16; Mt 21:42; Mt 22:31; Mr 2:25; Mr 12:26; Mr 13:14; Lu 6:3; Lu 20:17,18; Ac 4:11,12; Ro 9:33; Eph 2:20-22; 1Pe 2:7,8

¹ tn Or “capstone,” “keystone.” Although these meanings are lexically possible, the imagery in Eph 2:20-22 and 1 Cor 3:11 indicates that the term κεφαλὴ γωνίας (kefalh gwnia") refers to a cornerstone, not a capstone.

sn The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. The use of Ps 118:22-23 and the “stone imagery” as a reference to Christ and his suffering and exaltation is common in the NT (see also Matt 21:42; Luke 20:17; Acts 4:11; 1 Pet 2:6-8; cf. also Eph 2:20). The irony in the use of Ps 118:22-23 in Mark 12:10-11 is that in the OT, Israel was the one rejected (or perhaps her king) by the Gentiles, but in the NT it is Jesus who is rejected by Israel.