“Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be more excellent for them if they were thrown into the sea with a millstone hung around their neck.
But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for them to have a huge millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.
Now I beg y’all, siblings, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine that y’all learned. Avoid them.
But so that we don’t offend them, go to the sea and throw out a hook. Take up the first fish that comes up, and when you open its mouth, you will find a four-drachma coin. Take that, and give it to them for me and you.”