Anakalypsis / Unveiling the Word

Luke 7:23

And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me.

KJV

καὶ μακάριός ἐστιν ὃς ἐὰν μὴ σκανδαλισθῇ ἐν ἐμοί.

Greek NT

et beatus est quicumque non fuerit scandalizatus in me.

Vulgate

And blessed is he, whosoever shall find no occasion of stumbling in me.

ASV

And blessed is he whosoever shall not be scandalized in me.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

9 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
μή
me
particle · 1033×
μακάριος
makarios
adjective · 50×
σκανδαλίζω
skandalizo
verb · 29×
ἐάν
ean
conditional · 333×
ἐγώ
ego
pronoun · 1720×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ὅς
os
relative_pronoun · 1404×

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§545Jesus invites sinners to the table of the kingdom: "I came not to call the righteous, but sinners."258 He invites them to that conversion without which one cannot enter the kingdom, but shows them in word and deed his Father's boundless mercy for them and the vast "joy in heaven over one sinner who repents".259 The supreme proof of his love will be the sacrifice of his own life…
§547Jesus accompanies his words with many "mighty works and wonders and signs", which manifest that the kingdom is present in him and attest that he was the promised Messiah.268

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 1:21 — For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
  • 1Cor 2:14 — But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
  • 1Pet 2:7 — Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner,
  • 2Tim 4:2 — Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
  • Hos 14:9 — Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.
  • Isa 8:14 — And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
  • John 6:60 — Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it?
  • Luke 2:34 — And Simeon blessed them, and said unto Mary his mother, Behold, this child is set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel; and for a sign which shall be spoken against;
  • Mark 6:3 — Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended at him.
  • Matt 11:6 — And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me.
  • Matt 13:57 — And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house.
  • Matt 13:57 — And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house.
  • Rom 9:32 — Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;
  • Rom 9:32 — Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;