And it was in his speaking these things, a certain woman of the crowd, having lifted up the voice, said to him, Happy the womb having borne thee, and breasts thou didst suck.

Whosoever

Is not this the son of the carpenter? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas?

Then his disciples having come near, said to him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees, having heard the word, were scandalized?

Woe to the world for offences I for there is necessity for offences to come; but woe to that man by whom the offence comes!

And then shall many be offended, and they shall deliver up one another, and they shall hate one another.

Then says Jesus to them, All ye shall be scandalized in me this night; for it has been written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered up and down.

And he was for a holy place and for a stone of striking, and for a rock of falling to the two houses of Israel; for a trap net and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

And Simeon praised them, and said to Mary his mother, Behold, he is laid for the fall and rising up of many in Israel; and for a sign spoken against;

And he said to them, Directly will ye say to me this proverb, Physician, cure thyself: what things we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country.

Then many of his disciples, having heard, said, This is a hard word; who can hear it

Others said, This is Christ: and others said, Yet Christ comes not out of Galilee.

Wherefore? Because not of faith, but as of the works of the law. For they stumbled at the stumblingstone;

And since the Jews ask a sign, and the Greeks seek wisdom:

And the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness to him: and he cannot know, for they are spiritually examined.

And I, brethren, if I yet proclaim circumcision, why am I. yet driven out? therefore the offence of the cross is left unemployed.

And a stone of stumble, and rock of offence, they disbelieving the word stumble: to which also they were set.

General references

And he said to them, The Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.

And John's disciples announced to him of all these things.

These have I spoken, that ye should not be offended.