Luke 7:23

A Question From John The Baptist

²² He replied to them, “Go and report to John the things you have seen and heard: The blind receive their sight, the lame walk, those with skin diseases are healed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor are told the good news. ²³ And anyone who is not offended because of Me is blessed.” ²⁴ After John’s messengers left, He began to speak to the crowds about John: “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed swaying in the wind?

Blessed is

Blessed is the Man

Happy is He

Happy is the Man

In Me

Stumbling Block

Luke

No

Isaiah 8:14-15

He will be a sanctuary;
but for the two houses of Israel,
He will be a stone to stumble over
and a rock to trip over,
and a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Matthew 11:6

And if anyone is not offended because of Me, he is blessed.”

Matthew 13:57-58

And they were offended by Him.

But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown and in his household.”

Luke 2:34

Then Simeon blessed them and told His mother Mary: “Indeed, this child is destined to cause the fall and rise of many in Israel and to be a sign that will be opposed—

John 6:60-66

Therefore, when many of His disciples heard this, they said, “This teaching is hard! Who can accept it?”

Romans 9:32-33

Why is that? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone.

1 Corinthians 1:21-28

For since, in God’s wisdom, the world did not know God through wisdom, God was pleased to save those who believe through the foolishness of the message preached.

1 Corinthians 2:14

But the unbeliever does not welcome what comes from God’s Spirit, because it is foolishness to him; he is not able to understand it since it is evaluated spiritually.

1 Peter 2:7-8

So honor will come to you who believe, but for the unbelieving,

The stone that the builders rejected—
this One has become the cornerstone,