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Matthew 13:57

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

And they were offended by him. Jesus said to them, ‘A prophet is not without honour except in his home town and in his household.’

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(Jesus himself had testified  that a prophet has no honour in his own country.  )


and blessed is the one who isn’t offended by me.’


He also said, ‘Truly I tell you, no prophet is accepted in his home town.


Jesus, knowing in himself  that his disciples were grumbling about this, asked them, ‘Does this offend you?


He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering who knew what sickness was. He was like someone people turned away from; he was despised, and we didn’t value him.


They were saying, ‘Isn’t this Jesus the son of Joseph,  whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, “I have come down from heaven”? ’


and blessed is the one who isn’t offended by me.’


This is what the  Lord, the Redeemer  of Israel, his Holy One, says to one who is despised, to one abhorred by people,  , to a servant of rulers: ‘Kings will see, princes will stand up, and they  will all bow down because of the Lord, who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel   #– #and he has chosen you.’


He will be a sanctuary; but for the two houses of Israel, he will be a stone  to stumble over and a rock to trip over, and a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.


King  Herod  heard about it, because Jesus’s name  had become well known. Some  said, ‘John the Baptist  has been raised from the dead,  and that’s why miraculous powers  are at work  in him.’


Isn’t this the carpenter,  the son of Mary,  and the brother of James,  Joses, Judas,  and Simon? And aren’t his sisters here with us? ’ So they were offended  by him.


And he did not do many miracles there because of their unbelief.


He  left there and came to his home town,  and his disciples  followed him.


Jesus said to them, ‘A prophet   is not without honour   except in his home town, among his relatives, and in his household.’





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