Mark 6:14

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

He went out again by the seaside. All the multitude came to him, and he taught them.

Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee, and news about him spread through all the surrounding area.

He said, “Most certainly I tell you, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown.

Herod said, “I beheaded John, but who is this about whom I hear such things?” He sought to see him.

When he found out that he was in Herod’s jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who was also in Jerusalem during those days.

For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.

First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, that your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.

For it became him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many children to glory, to make the author of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

The report about him went out into all Syria. They brought to him all who were sick, afflicted with various diseases and torments, possessed with demons, epileptics, and paralytics; and he healed them.

and they bound him, and led him away, and delivered him up to Pontius Pilate, the governor.

Immediately many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even around the door; and he spoke the word to them.

But others said, “He is Elijah.” Others said, “He is a prophet, or like one of the prophets.”

He commanded them that they should tell no one, but the more he commanded them, so much the more widely they proclaimed it.

But the report concerning him spread much more, and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by him of their infirmities.

so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your perseverance and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure.

Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may spread rapidly and be glorified, even as also with you,

Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation,

The younger also bore a son, and called his name Ben Ammi. He is the father of the children of Ammon to this day.

He struck Moab, and measured them with the line, making them to lie down on the ground; and he measured two lines to put to death, and one full line to keep alive. The Moabites became servants to David, and brought tribute.

The fame of David went out into all lands; and Yahweh brought the fear of him on all nations.

Some of the Philistines brought Jehoshaphat presents and silver for tribute. The Arabians also brought him flocks, seven thousand seven hundred rams, and seven thousand seven hundred male goats.

I have not hidden your righteousness within my heart. I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation. I have not concealed your loving kindness and your truth from the great assembly.

Catch for us the foxes, the little foxes that plunder the vineyards; for our vineyards are in blossom.

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.

Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says, ‘You and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and with your hands have fulfilled it, saying, “We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to her.” “ ‘Establish then your vows, and perform your vows.’

Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of Yahweh comes.

At that time, Herod the tetrarch heard the report concerning Jesus,

and said to his servants, “This is John the Baptizer. He is risen from the dead. That is why these powers work in him.”

Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and among his own relatives, and in his own house.”

He said to them, “You come apart into a deserted place, and rest awhile.” For there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat.

Now in those days, a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled.

This was the first enrollment made when Quirinius was governor of Syria.

but Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias, his brother’s wife, and for all the evil things which Herod had done,

“Return to your house, and declare what great things God has done for you.” He went his way, proclaiming throughout the whole city what great things Jesus had done for him.

Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was done by him; and he was very perplexed, because it was said by some that John had risen from the dead,

Now when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceedingly glad, for he had wanted to see him for a long time, because he had heard many things about him. He hoped to see some miracle done by him.

They asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not.” “Are you the prophet?” He answered, “No.”

A great multitude followed him, because they saw his signs which he did on those who were sick.

But Jesus knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at this, said to them, “Does this cause you to stumble?

“For truly, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together against your holy servant, Jesus, whom you anointed,

Now in the assembly that was at Antioch there were some prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon who was called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen the foster brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

But I say, didn’t they hear? Yes, most certainly, “Their sound went out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.”

You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men,

When they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up out of the abyss will make war with them, and overcome them, and kill them.

to devise skillful works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in bronze,

“ ‘Or if anyone swears rashly with his lips to do evil or to do good—whatever it is that a man might utter rashly with an oath, and it is hidden from him—when he knows of it, then he will be guilty of one of these.

God do so to the enemies of David, and more also, if I leave of all that belongs to him by the morning light so much as one who urinates on a wall.”

For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, Heman, Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in all the nations all around.

the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan; and his father was a man of Tyre, skillful to work in gold, in silver, in bronze, in iron, in stone, in timber, and in purple, in blue, in fine linen, and in crimson, also to engrave any kind of engraving and to devise any device; that there may be a place appointed to him with your skillful men, and with the skillful men of my lord David your father.

The Ammonites gave tribute to Uzziah. His name spread abroad even to the entrance of Egypt; for he grew exceedingly strong.

In Jerusalem, he made devices, invented by skillful men, to be on the towers and on the battlements, with which to shoot arrows and great stones. His name spread far abroad, because he was marvelously helped until he was strong.

He took courage, built up all the wall that was broken down, and raised it up to the towers, with the other wall outside, and strengthened Millo in David’s city, and made weapons and shields in abundance.

Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, says to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and rise up, princes, and they shall worship, because of Yahweh who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”

He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him.

He shall stand, and shall shepherd in the strength of Yahweh, in the majesty of the name of Yahweh his God: and they will live, for then he will be great to the ends of the earth.

The report of this went out into all that land.

But they went out and spread abroad his fame in all that land.

yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.

They were offended by him. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and in his own house.”

The king was grieved, but for the sake of his oaths, and of those who sat at the table with him, he commanded it to be given,

Then many will stumble, and will deliver up one another, and will hate one another.

The report of him went out immediately everywhere into all the region of Galilee and its surrounding area.

But he went out, and began to proclaim it much, and to spread about the matter, so that Jesus could no more openly enter into a city, but was outside in desert places. People came to him from everywhere.

When he entered again into Capernaum after some days, it was heard that he was in the house.

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.

They told him, “John the Baptizer, and others say Elijah, but others: one of the prophets.”

Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,

He taught in their synagogues, being glorified by all.

The book of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. He opened the book, and found the place where it was written,

News about him went out into every place of the surrounding region.

When it was day, he departed and went into an uninhabited place, and the multitudes looked for him, and came to him, and held on to him, so that he wouldn’t go away from them.

This report went out concerning him in the whole of Judea, and in all the surrounding region.

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

On that same day, some Pharisees came, saying to him, “Get out of here, and go away, for Herod wants to kill you.”

He said to them, “Go and tell that fox, ‘Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I complete my mission.

They said, “Isn’t this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then does he say, ‘I have come down out of heaven?’ ”

For the king knows of these things, to whom also I speak freely. For I am persuaded that none of these things is hidden from him, for this has not been done in a corner.

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

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

For from you the word of the Lord has been declared, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith toward God has gone out, so that we need not to say anything.