{"id":7049,"date":"2025-09-08T00:54:41","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T05:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/?p=7049"},"modified":"2025-09-08T00:54:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T05:54:41","slug":"the-offense-of-the-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/the-offense-of-the-cross\/","title":{"rendered":"The Offense of the Cross&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5263 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/yeshua-chagall.jpg?resize=173%2C186&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"173\" height=\"186\" \/>Yeshua repeatedly took the role of a \u201cstumbling block\u201d to test people\u2019s response to his ministry and message. Most people were offended at Him, of course, and in the end Yeshua was crucified for the sake of their offenses. After His death, the cross itself became the scandal of faith. The Apostle Paul referred to the &#8220;offense of the cross&#8221; which he did not want removed. But what is the &#8220;offense of the cross&#8221; and why is the proclamation of the crucified Messiah a scandal (\u03c3\u03ba\u1f71\u03bd\u03b4\u03b1\u03bb\u03bf\u03bd) to Jews and foolishness to the Gentiles?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Listen Now:<\/b><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-7049-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Offense-of-the-cross.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Offense-of-the-cross.mp3\">https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Offense-of-the-cross.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>\u00ad<\/p>\n<p>\u00ad<\/p>\n<p>For more information see &#8220;The Offense of the Cross: Further thoughts on Skandalon&#8221; on the Hebrew for Christians web site:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/Articles\/Offense_of_the_Cross\/offense_of_the_cross.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Offense of the Cross<\/a> (article link)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00ad<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeshua repeatedly took the role of a \u201cstumbling block\u201d to test people\u2019s response to his ministry and message. Most people were offended at Him, of course, and in the end Yeshua was crucified for the sake of their offenses. After His death, the cross itself became the scandal of faith. The Apostle Paul referred to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,18,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-dvar","category-holidays","category-torah"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7050,"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7049\/revisions\/7050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}