34 Then Simeon blessed them and told His mother Mary: “Indeed, this child is destined to cause the fall and rise of many in Israel(A) and to be a sign that will be opposed[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 2:34 Or spoken against

33 As it is written:

Look! I am putting a stone in Zion to stumble over
and a rock to trip over,
yet the one who believes on Him(A)
will not be put to shame.(B)[a]

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and

A stone to stumble over,[a]
and a rock to trip over.[b](A)[c]

They stumble because they disobey the message; they were destined(B) for this.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Peter 2:8 Or a stone causing stumbling
  2. 1 Peter 2:8 Or a rock to trip over
  3. 1 Peter 2:8 Is 8:14

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