Luke 2:34

Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.

But the word of God grew and multiplied.

So the word of the Lord was growing and becoming mighty.

But even if you should suffer for righteousness’ sake, you are blessed. “Don’t fear what they fear, neither be troubled.”

Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks,

He will be a sanctuary, but for both houses of Israel, he will be a stumbling stone and a rock that makes them fall. For the people of Jerusalem, he will be a trap and a snare.

The Jews answered him, “We don’t stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy: because you, being a man, make yourself God.”

All these with one accord continued steadfastly in prayer and supplication, along with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.

Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

They sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God, the Almighty! Righteous and true are your ways, you King of the nations.

He lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, “Who are these with you?” He said, “The children whom God has graciously given your servant.”

Whoever is wise will pay attention to these things. They will consider the loving kindnesses of Yahweh.

Isn’t this the carpenter’s son? Isn’t his mother called Mary, and his brothers, James, Joses, Simon, and Judas?

He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but on whomever it will fall, it will scatter him as dust.”

After this, he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, his brothers, and his disciples; and they stayed there a few days.

Jesus said to them, “Most certainly, I tell you, before Abraham came into existence, I AM.”

through whom we received grace and apostleship for obedience of faith among all the nations for his name’s sake;

to the one a stench from death to death, to the other a sweet aroma from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?

But of the other apostles I saw no one except James, the Lord’s brother.

having a good conscience. Thus, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.

Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from the presence of Pharaoh.

They will be for a sign and for a wonder to you and to your offspring forever.

Though he stumble, he shall not fall, for Yahweh holds him up with his hand.

Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in Yahweh, his God:

The way of Yahweh is a stronghold to the upright, but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.

Therefore Yahweh’s word will be to them precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little; that they may go, fall backward, be broken, be snared, and be taken.

It will happen in that day, that I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all the peoples. All who burden themselves with it will be severely wounded, and all the nations of the earth will be gathered together against it.

“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

From that time, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.

saying, “The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.”

that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who doesn’t honor the Son doesn’t honor the Father who sent him.

His brothers therefore said to him, “Depart from here and go into Judea, that your disciples also may see your works which you do.

For even his brothers didn’t believe in him.

I and the Father are one.”

The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.”

But some Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there, and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.

But this I confess to you, that after the Way, which they call a sect, so I serve the God of our fathers, believing all things which are according to the law, and which are written in the prophets;

Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight; for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.

Have we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

But I, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been removed.

which has come to you, even as it is in all the world and is bearing fruit and growing, as it does in you also, since the day you heard and knew the grace of God in truth,

persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. The Lord delivered me out of them all.

When David had finished offering the burnt offering and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of Yahweh of Armies.

The king turned his face around, and blessed all the assembly of Israel; and all the assembly of Israel stood.

Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, and the righteous walk in them; But the rebellious stumble in them.

and they will kill him, and the third day he will be raised up.” They were exceedingly sorry.

and will hand him over to the Gentiles to mock, to scourge, and to crucify; and the third day he will be raised up.”

He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.

They will mock him, spit on him, scourge him, and kill him. On the third day he will rise again.”

They will scourge and kill him. On the third day, he will rise again.”

For this cause the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill him, because he did these things on the Sabbath.

After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn’t walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.

But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret.

But some of the sect of the Pharisees who believed rose up, saying, “It is necessary to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.”

When they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook out his clothing and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am clean. From now on, I will go to the Gentiles!”

having known me from the first, if they are willing to testify, that after the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

who, existing in the form of God, didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,

having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

But these speak evil of whatever things they don’t know. They are destroyed in these things that they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason.

He showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb,

Make me savory food, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat, and that my soul may bless you before I die.”

“I will set a sign among them, and I will send those who escape of them to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to far-away islands, who have not heard my fame, nor have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the nations.

But we desire to hear from you what you think. For, as concerning this sect, it is known to us that everywhere it is spoken against.”

He blessed him, and said, “Blessed be Abram of God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth.

Joseph brought in Jacob, his father, and set him before Pharaoh; and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

Moses saw all the work, and behold, they had done it as Yahweh had commanded. They had done so; and Moses blessed them.

So Joshua blessed them, and sent them away; and they went to their tents.

Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, “May Yahweh give you offspring from this woman for the petition which was asked of Yahweh.” Then they went to their own home.

All the people went over the Jordan, and the king went over. Then the king kissed Barzillai, and blessed him; and he returned to his own place.

I am a marvel to many, but you are my strong refuge.

Behold, I and the children whom Yahweh has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from Yahweh of Armies, who dwells in Mount Zion.

Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife, and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, neither have men lent to me; yet every one of them curses me.

“Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he will die. Because you have not given him warning, he will die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done will not be remembered; but I will require his blood at your hand.

Take for yourself an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between you and the city. Then set your face toward it. It will be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.

“But who can endure the day of his coming? And who will stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire, and like launderers’ soap;

Blessed is he who finds no occasion for stumbling in me.”

The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is justified by her children.”

While he was yet speaking to the multitudes, behold, his mother and his brothers stood outside, seeking to speak to him.

saying, “Sir, we remember what that deceiver said while he was still alive: ‘After three days I will rise again.’

Isn’t this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, Joses, Judah, and Simon? Aren’t his sisters here with us?” They were offended at him.

Blessed is he who finds no occasion for stumbling in me.”

For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.

For this cause therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, that those who don’t see may see; and that those who see may become blind.”

Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his lord.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.

The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take council together, against the Lord, and against his Christ.’

The word of God increased and the number of the disciples greatly multiplied in Jerusalem. A great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.

But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted the things which were spoken by Paul, and blasphemed.

But the multitude of the city was divided. Part sided with the Jews, and part with the apostles.

When they didn’t find them, they dragged Jason and certain brothers before the rulers of the city, crying, “These who have turned the world upside down have come here also,

For we have found this man to be a plague, an instigator of insurrections among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.

Why? Because they didn’t seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;

For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him,

But without any dispute the lesser is blessed by the greater.

For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.

and, “a stumbling stone and a rock of offense.” For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.

If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.