Luke 7:23
Blessed is he who finds no occasion for stumbling in me.”
--------------------
Luke 7:23
Blessed is he who finds no occasion for stumbling in me.”
--------------------
Exodus 4:11
Yahweh said to him, “Who made man’s mouth? Or who makes one mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Isn’t it I, Yahweh?
Job 33:16
then he opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction,
Proverbs 20:12
The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, Yahweh has made even both of them.
Isaiah 35:5
Then the eyes of the blind will be opened, and the ears of the deaf will be unstopped.
Isaiah 48:8
Yes, you didn’t hear. Yes, you didn’t know. Yes, from of old your ear was not opened, for I knew that you dealt very treacherously, and were called a transgressor from the womb.
Jeremiah 6:10
To whom should I speak and testify, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they can’t listen. Behold, Yahweh’s word has become a reproach to them. They have no delight in it.
Mark 7:32
They brought to him one who was deaf and had an impediment in his speech. They begged him to lay his hand on him.
Mark 7:33
He took him aside from the multitude privately and put his fingers into his ears; and he spat and touched his tongue.
Mark 7:34
Looking up to heaven, he sighed, and said to him, “Ephphatha!” that is, “Be opened!”
Mark 7:35
Immediately his ears were opened, and the impediment of his tongue was released, and he spoke clearly.
Mark 7:36
He commanded them that they should tell no one, but the more he commanded them, so much the more widely they proclaimed it.
Mark 7:37
They were astonished beyond measure, saying, “He has done all things well. He makes even the deaf hear and the mute speak!”
Mark 9:25
When Jesus saw that a multitude came running together, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to him, “You mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him, and never enter him again!”
Mark 9:26
After crying out and convulsing him greatly, it came out of him. The boy became like one dead, so much that most of them said, “He is dead.”
-----
1 Samuel 2:8
He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill to make them sit with princes and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh’s. He has set the world on them.
Psalms 113:7
He raises up the poor out of the dust, and lifts up the needy from the ash heap,
Psalms 113:8
that he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his people.
-----
Matthew 2:2
“Where is he who is born King of the Jews? For we saw his star in the east, and have come to worship him.”
-----
Matthew 4:12
Now when Jesus heard that John was delivered up, he withdrew into Galilee.
Matthew 14:3
For Herod had arrested John, bound him, and put him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife.
Mark 6:17
For Herod himself had sent out and arrested John and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, for he had married her.
Luke 3:19
but Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias, his brother’s wife, and for all the evil things which Herod had done,
John 3:24
for John was not yet thrown into prison.
-----
Matthew 11:3
and said to him, “Are you he who comes, or should we look for another?”
Matthew 11:28
“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.
Luke 4:18
“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,
Luke 24:18
One of them, named Cleopas, answered him, “Are you the only stranger in Jerusalem who doesn’t know the things which have happened there in these days?”
Luke 24:19
He said to them, “What things?” They said to him, “The things concerning Jesus the Nazarene, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people;
John 3:2
He came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.”
John 6:14
When therefore the people saw the sign which Jesus did, they said, “This is truly the prophet who comes into the world.”
John 6:27
Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”
John 7:31
But of the multitude, many believed in him. They said, “When the Christ comes, he won’t do more signs than those which this man has done, will he?”
John 10:25
Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you don’t believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name, these testify about me.
John 11:47
The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, “What are we doing? For this man does many signs.
John 12:17
The multitude therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead was testifying about it.
John 14:10
Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I tell you, I speak not from myself; but the Father who lives in me does his works.
Acts 10:37
you yourselves know what happened, which was proclaimed throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached;
Acts 10:38
how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.
-----
Matthew 14:13
Now when Jesus heard this, he withdrew from there in a boat to a deserted place apart. When the multitudes heard it, they followed him on foot from the cities.
Mark 3:10
For he had healed many, so that as many as had diseases pressed on him that they might touch him.
Mark 6:5
He could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and healed them.
Mark 6:55
and ran around that whole region, and began to bring those who were sick on their mats to where they heard he was.
Mark 6:56
Wherever he entered—into villages, or into cities, or into the country—they laid the sick in the marketplaces and begged him that they might just touch the fringe of his garment; and as many as touched him were made well.
Luke 4:32
and they were astonished at his teaching, for his word was with authority.
Luke 4:40
When the sun was setting, all those who had any sick with various diseases brought them to him; and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them.
Luke 4:41
Demons also came out of many, crying out and saying, “You are the Christ, the Son of God!” Rebuking them, he didn’t allow them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ.
Luke 5:17
On one of those days, he was teaching; and there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting by who had come out of every village of Galilee, Judea, and Jerusalem. The power of the Lord was with him to heal them.
Luke 6:19
All the multitude sought to touch him, for power came out of him and healed them all.
Luke 8:46
But Jesus said, “Someone did touch me, for I perceived that power has gone out of me.”
Luke 19:37
As he was now getting near, at the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works which they had seen,
Acts 4:33
With great power, the apostles gave their testimony of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. Great grace was on them all.
Acts 5:15
They even carried out the sick into the streets and laid them on cots and mattresses, so that as Peter came by, at least his shadow might overshadow some of them.
Acts 19:12
so that even handkerchiefs or aprons were carried away from his body to the sick, and the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out.
-----
Luke 7:28
“For I tell you, among those who are born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptizer; yet he who is least in God’s Kingdom is greater than he.”
-----
Luke 9:20
He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered, “The Christ of God.”
Luke 9:22
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.”
-----
Luke 14:13
But when you make a feast, ask the poor, the maimed, the lame, or the blind;
Luke 14:21
“That servant came, and told his lord these things. Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in the poor, maimed, blind, and lame.’
-----
Luke 4:23
He said to them, “Doubtless you will tell me this proverb, ‘Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we have heard done at Capernaum, do also here in your hometown.’ ”
Luke 4:24
He said, “Most certainly I tell you, no prophet is acceptable in his hometown.
Luke 4:25
But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land.
Luke 4:26
Elijah was sent to none of them, except to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.
Luke 4:27
There were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed, except Naaman, the Syrian.”
John 4:44
For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.
John 6:60
Therefore many of his disciples, when they heard this, said, “This is a hard saying! Who can listen to it?”
-----
Hosea 14:9
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.
John 3:19
This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil.
John 3:20
For everyone who does evil hates the light and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.
John 9:39
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.”
2 Corinthians 2:15
For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God in those who are saved and in those who perish:
2 Corinthians 2:16
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?
2 Thessalonians 2:9
even he whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
2 Thessalonians 2:10
and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
2 Thessalonians 2:11
Because of this, God sends them a powerful delusion, that they should believe a lie,
2 Thessalonians 2:12
that they all might be judged who didn’t believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
-----
John 10:33
The Jews answered him, “We don’t stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy, because you, being a man, make yourself God.”
John 10:34
Jesus answered them, “Isn’t it written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods?’
John 10:35
If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can’t be broken),
John 10:36
do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You blaspheme,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God?’
Acts 1:1
The first book I wrote, Theophilus, concerned all that Jesus began both to do and to teach,
-----
Isaiah 49:7
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.”
Isaiah 53:3
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.
Luke 2:35
Yes, a sword will pierce through your own soul, that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.”
John 6:42
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?’ ”
John 12:38
that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke: “Lord, who has believed our report? To whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”
John 12:39
For this cause they couldn’t believe, for Isaiah said again:
John 12:40
“He has blinded their eyes and he hardened their heart, lest they should see with their eyes, and perceive with their heart, and would turn, and I would heal them.”
-----
John 18:19
The high priest therefore asked Jesus about his disciples and about his teaching.
John 18:20
Jesus answered him, “I spoke openly to the world. I always taught in synagogues and in the temple, where the Jews always meet. I said nothing in secret.
John 18:21
Why do you ask me? Ask those who have heard me what I said to them. Behold, they know the things which I said.”
-----
Luke 4:33
In the synagogue there was a man who had a spirit of an unclean demon; and he cried out with a loud voice,
Luke 9:1
He called the twelve together and gave them power and authority over all demons, and to cure diseases.
Acts 6:8
Stephen, full of faith and power, performed great wonders and signs among the people.
Acts 8:13
Simon himself also believed. Being baptized, he continued with Philip. Seeing signs and great miracles occurring, he was amazed.
-----
Luke 4:19
and to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.”
Acts 26:26
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.
-----
Isaiah 57:14
He will say, “Build up, build up, prepare the way! Remove the stumbling-block out of the way of my people.”
Romans 9:33
even as it is written, “Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; and no one who believes in him will be disappointed.”
Romans 11:11
I ask then, did they stumble that they might fall? May it never be! But by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.
1 Peter 2:7
For you who believe therefore is the honor, but for those who are disobedient, “The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone,”
1 Peter 2:8
and, “a stumbling stone and a rock of offense.” For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.
-----
Luke 12:56
You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, but how is it that you don’t interpret this time?
1 Corinthians 1:24
but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God;
1 Corinthians 1:25
because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
1 Corinthians 1:26
For you see your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble;
1 Corinthians 1:27
but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world that he might put to shame the things that are strong.
1 Corinthians 1:28
God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that don’t exist, that he might bring to nothing the things that exist,
-----
1 Timothy 4:16
Pay attention to yourself and to your teaching. Continue in these things, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.
-----
Luke 7:4
When they came to Jesus, they begged him earnestly, saying, “He is worthy for you to do this for him,
Acts 13:5
When they were at Salamis, they proclaimed God’s word in the Jewish synagogues. They also had John as their attendant.
Romans 12:12
rejoicing in hope, enduring in troubles, continuing steadfastly in prayer,
1 Timothy 4:15
Be diligent in these things. Give yourself wholly to them, that your progress may be revealed to all.
2 Timothy 4:2
preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.
-----
1 Peter 2:21
For you were called to this, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps,
1 Peter 2:22
who didn’t sin, “neither was deceit found in his mouth.”
1 Peter 2:23
When he was cursed, he didn’t curse back. When he suffered, he didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously.
Public Domain