Matthew 11:6
11:6 Blessed is anyone
who takes no offense at me.”
Matthew 13:57
13:57 And so they took offense at him. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown and in his own house.”
Luke 2:34
2:34 Then
Simeon blessed them and said to his mother Mary, “Listen carefully:
This child
is destined to be the cause of the falling and rising
of many in Israel and to be a sign that will be rejected.
Luke 4:23-29
4:23 Jesus
said to them, “No doubt you will quote to me the proverb, ‘Physician, heal yourself!’
and say, ‘What we have heard that you did in Capernaum,
do here in your hometown too.’”
4:24 And he added,
“I tell you the truth,
no prophet is acceptable
in his hometown.
4:25 But in truth I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in Elijah’s days,
when the sky
was shut up three and a half years, and
there was a great famine over all the land.
4:26 Yet
Elijah was sent to none of them, but only to a woman who was a widow at Zarephath in Sidon.
4:27 And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha,
yet
none of them was cleansed except Naaman the Syrian.”
4:28 When they heard this, all the people
in the synagogue were filled with rage.
4:29 They got up, forced
him out of the town,
and brought him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, so that
they could throw him down the cliff.
Luke 7:23
7:23 Blessed is anyone
who takes no offense at me.”
John 6:60-61
6:60 Then many of his disciples, when they heard these things,
said, “This is a difficult
saying!
Who can understand it?”
6:61 When Jesus was aware
that his disciples were complaining
about this, he said to them, “Does this cause you to be offended?
John 6:1
The Feeding of the Five Thousand
6:1 After this Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee (also called the Sea of Tiberias).
Colossians 1:23
1:23 if indeed you remain in the faith, established and firm,
without shifting
from the hope of the gospel that you heard. This gospel has also been preached in all creation under heaven, and I, Paul, have become its servant.