Thematic Bible: The wicked take, at
Thematic Bible
Offence » The wicked take, at » Christ, as the corner-stone
As it is written, "Look! I am placing a stone in Zion over which people will stumble a large rock that will make them fall and the one who believes in him will never be ashamed."
Then he will be a sanctuary, but for both houses of Israel he'll also be a stone with which someone strikes himself, a rock one stumbles over, a trap and a snare to those who live in Jerusalem.
a stone they stumble over and a rock they trip on." They keep on stumbling because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.
Offence » The wicked take, at » Christ crucified
but we preach the Messiah crucified. He is a stumbling block to Jews and nonsense to gentiles,
As for me, brothers, if I am still preaching the necessity of circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been removed.
Offence » The wicked take, at » The low station of Christ
"Who has believed our message, and to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? For he grew up before him like a tender plant, and like a root out of a dry ground; he had no form and he had no majesty that we should look at him, and there is no attractiveness that we should desire him. "He was despised and rejected by others, and a man of sorrows, intimately familiar with suffering; and like one from whom people hide their faces; and we despised him and did not value him.
He went to his hometown and began teaching the people in their synagogue in such a way that they were amazed and asked, "Where did this man get this wisdom and these miracles? This is the builder's son, isn't it? His mother is named Mary, isn't she? His brothers are James, Joseph, Simon, and Judas, aren't they? And his sisters are all with us, aren't they? So where did this man get all these things?" read more.
And they were offended by him.
And they were offended by him.
Offence » The wicked take, at » The necessity of inward purity
It is not what goes into the mouth that makes a person unclean. It is what comes out of the mouth that makes a person unclean." Then the disciples came and asked him, "Do you realize that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this statement?"
Offence » The wicked take, at » Christ, as the bread of life
This is the bread that came down from heaven, not the kind that your ancestors ate. They died, but the one who eats this bread will live forever." He said this while teaching in the synagogue at Capernaum. When many of his disciples heard this, they said, "This is a difficult statement. Who can accept it?" read more.
But Jesus, knowing within himself that his disciples were grumbling about this, asked them, "Does this offend you?
But Jesus, knowing within himself that his disciples were grumbling about this, asked them, "Does this offend you?
Offence » The wicked take, at » The righteousness of faith
Why not? Because they did not pursue it on the basis of faith, but as if it were based on achievements. They stumbled over the stone that causes people to stumble.