Luke 7:23

A Question From John The Baptist

²² So he replied, "Go and report to John what you have seen and heard; that the blind see, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and to the poor the gospel is preached. ²³ And blessed is he who is repelled by nothing in me!" ²⁴ When John's messengers had gone, he proceeded to speak to the crowds about John: "What did you go out to the desert to see? A reed swayed by the wind?

Blessed is

Blessed is the Man

Happy is He

Happy is the Man

In Me

Stumbling Block

Luke

No

Matthew 11:6

And blessed is he who is repelled by nothing in me!"

Matthew 13:57-58

So they were repelled by him. But Jesus said to them, "A prophet never goes without honour except in his native place and in his home."

Luke 2:34

but Symeon blessed them, and to his mother Mary he said, "This child is destined for the downfall as well as for the rise of many a one in Israel; destined to be a Sign for man's attack ??35 to bring out the secret aims of many a heart. And your own soul will be pierced by a spear."

John 6:60-66

Now many of his disciples, on hearing it, said, "This is hard to take in! Who can listen to talk like this?"

Romans 9:32-33

And why? Simply because Israel has relied not on faith but on what they could do. They have stumbled over the stone that makes men stumble ??33 as it is written, Here I lay a stone in Sion that will make men stumble, even a rock to trip them up; but he who believes in Him will never be disappointed.

1 Corinthians 1:21-28

For when the world with all its wisdom failed to know God in his wisdom, God resolved to save believers by the 'sheer folly' of the Christian message.

1 Corinthians 2:14

The unspiritual man rejects these truths of the Spirit of God; to him they are 'sheer folly,' he cannot understand them. And the reason is, that they must be read with the spiritual eye.

1 Peter 2:7-8

Now you believe, you hold him 'precious,' but as for the unbelieving ??the very stone the builders rejected is now the cornerstone,