hSee Matt. 13:57
Matthew 11:6
6And blessed is the one who ais not offended by me.”Matthew 13:57
57And bthey took offense at him. But Jesus said to them, c“A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown and in his own household.”Luke 2:34
34And Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother, “Behold, this child is appointed dfor the fall and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign ethat is opposedLuke 4:23-29
23And he said to them, “Doubtless you will quote to me this proverb, f‘Physician, heal yourself.’ What we have heard you did gat Capernaum, do here in your hometown as well.” 24And he said, “Truly, I say to you, hno prophet is acceptable in his hometown. 25But in truth, I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when ithe heavens were shut up three years and six months, and a great famine came over all the land, 26and Elijah was sent to none of them jbut only to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow. 27And kthere were many lepers ▼▼Leprosy was a term for several skin diseases; see Leviticus 13
in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, and none of them was cleansed, mbut only Naaman the Syrian.” 28When they heard these things, all in the synagogue were filled with wrath. 29And they rose up and ndrove him out of the town and brought him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, so that they could throw him down the cliff. Luke 7:23
23And blessed is the one who is onot offended by me.”John 6:60-61
The Words of Eternal Life
60 pWhen many of his disciples heard it, they said, “This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?” 61But Jesus, qknowing in himself that his disciples were grumbling about this, said to them, “Do you take offense at this?1 Corinthians 1:23
23but we preach Christ rcrucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles,
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