⁵⁷ And they took offense at him. But Jesus said to them, “Prophets are not without honor except in their own hometown and in their own house.”^(A)

⁴⁴ (for Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in the prophet’s own country).^(A)

²⁴ And he said, “Truly I tell you, no prophet is accepted in his hometown.^(A)

⁶ And blessed is anyone who takes no offense at me.”^(A)

⁶¹ But Jesus, being aware that his disciples were complaining about it, said to them, “Does this offend you?^(A)

²³ but we proclaim Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to gentiles,^{(A) 24} but to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. ²⁵ For God’s foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and God’s weakness is stronger than human strength.

²⁶ Consider your own call, brothers and sisters: not many of you were wise by human standards,^[a] not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth.^{(B) 27} But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong;^{(C) 28} God chose what is low and despised in the world, things that are not, to abolish things that are,

⁵¹ “You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you are forever opposing the Holy Spirit, just as your ancestors used to do.^{(A) 52} Which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, and now you have become his betrayers and murderers.^(B)

⁴² They were saying, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”^(A)

³⁴ Then Simeon blessed them and said to his mother Mary, “This child is destined for the falling and the rising of many in Israel and to be a sign that will be opposed^{(A) 35} so that the inner thoughts of many will be revealed—and a sword will pierce your own soul, too.”

³⁷ This is the Moses who said to the Israelites, ‘God will raise up a prophet for you from your own people as he raised me up.’^{(A) 38} He is the one who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai and with our ancestors, and he received living oracles to give to us.^{(B) 39} Our ancestors were unwilling to obey him; instead, they pushed him aside, and in their hearts they turned back to Egypt,