coming to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious.
Of that collection of Old Testament texts Peter was about to quote, Hart wrote, "This collection of texts can be traced back through  Romans 9:32f to its origin in the saying of  Mark 12:10f";[16] but such a view is totally wrong.  The conception of Christ as the Stone goes back to the Saviour himself  (Matthew 21:42f).  That Peter who had heard the Lord use this very figure would have needed to borrow it from either Paul or Mark (who received practically all of his information from Peter!) is one of the little conceits of New Testament critics which true students of the New Testament view as preposterous.  Long before this epistle was written, Peter had himself also used the same figure of the chief corner set at naught by "you builders" (the Jewish hierarchy) (Acts 4:11).