Matthew 13:57
And they were bitter against him. But Jesus said to them, A prophet is nowhere without honour but in his country and among his family.
Luke 4:24
And he said to them, Truly I say to you, No prophet is honoured in his country.
John 4:44
For Jesus himself said that a prophet has no honour in the country of his birth.
Matthew 11:6
And a blessing will be on him who has no doubts about me.
John 6:61
When Jesus became conscious that his disciples were protesting about what he said, he said to them, Does this give you trouble?
Isaiah 8:14
And he will be for a holy place: but for a stone of falling and a rock of trouble to the two houses of Israel, and to the men of Jerusalem, for a net in which they may be taken.
Isaiah 49:7
The Lord who takes up Israel's cause, even his Holy One, says to him whom men make sport of, who is hated by the nations, a servant of rulers: Kings will see and get up from their places, and chiefs will give worship: because of the Lord who keeps faith; even the Holy One of Israel who has taken you for himself.
Isaiah 53:3
Men made sport of him, turning away from him; he was a man of sorrows, marked by disease; and like one from whom men's faces are turned away, he was looked down on, and we put no value on him.
Mark 6:3
Is not this the woodworker, the son of Mary, and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were bitter against him.
Mark 6:14
And king Herod had news of him, because his name was on the lips of all; and he said, John the Baptist has come back from the dead, and for this reason these powers are working in him.
Luke 2:34-35
And Simeon gave them his blessing and said to Mary, his mother, See, this child will be the cause of the downfall and the lifting up of great numbers of people in Israel, and he will be a sign against which hard words will be said;
Luke 7:23
And a blessing will be on him who has no doubts about me.
John 6:42
And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we have seen? How is it then that he now says, I have come down from heaven?
Acts 3:22-23
For Moses said, The Lord will give you a prophet from among your people, like me; you will give ear to everything which he will say to you.
Acts 7:37-39
This is the same Moses, who said to the children of Israel, God will give you a prophet from among your brothers, like me.
Acts 7:51-52
You whose hearts are hard and whose ears are shut to me; you are ever working against the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.
1 Corinthians 1:23-28
But we give the good news of Christ on the cross, a hard thing to the Jews, and a foolish thing to the Gentiles;