Despicable Paul calls Christ crucified a 'stumbling block' to Jews...but "skandalon" Strong's Greek 4625 refers to the snare that leads to SIN! Pharisees rejected the corner stone and "The Son of Man will send forth His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all stumbling blocks, and those who commit lawlessness"

King David prayed regarding these evil & SCANDALOUS men

⁹ Keep me from the SNARES which they have laid for me, and the gins [snares] of the workers of INIQUITY.

¹⁰ Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that I withal escape.

Psalm 141

The mischievous KJV usually translates the word “skandalon” [Strong's 4625] as ‘stumbling block’ for Paul, but as ‘offense’ when Jesus or his disciples use the term:

“The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend [temptations to sin], and them which do iniquity” Matthew 13:41 KJV

“The Son of Man will send forth His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all stumbling blocks, and those who commit lawlessness” Matthew 13:41 NASB

“The Ben HaAdam [Moshiach] will send forth his malachim, and they will pull up and gather out of the Moshiach’s Malchut all the things making meshummad (apostate) and the ones who are without Torah and antinomian.” Matthew 13:41 Orthodox Jewish Bible

Please understand that the water is being PURPOSEFULLY muddied in describing Christ as a ‘stumbling block’ instead of the crushing corner stone that the builders rejected — He clarified the matter with his disciples…

“When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, Doth this OFFEND [skandalizei, Strong's 4624] you?” John 6:61

So why would Jesus now be asking if he had “scandalized” them…since he gave clear instruction regarding ‘scandalous’ matters of the heart in Matthew 5:29-30?

The answer to the question in John 6:61 MUST BE A RESOUNDING ‘NO!!‘ He was not leading them into sin/destruction by his teaching; no need to separate themselves from him.

He was not lying to them nor misleading them about having the words of eternal life!

²¹ I will praise thee: for thou hast heard me, and art become my salvation.

²² The STONE which the builders refused is become the head STONE of the corner.

²³ This is the Lord’s doing; it is marvellous in our eyes.

Psalm 118

“Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord’s doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?” Matthew 21:42

If the Pharisees were “scandalized”, then it was caused by their refusal to give up doing evil deeds [John 3:19]

¹² Then came his disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were OFFENDED, after they heard this saying?

¹³ But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up.

Matthew 15

“These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended.” John 16:1

Who is the stumbling block being hidden?

“But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an OFFENCE [stumbling block] unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.” Matthew 16:23

Strong’s Greek: 4625. σκάνδαλον (skandalon) — 15 Occurrences

Original Word: σκάνδαλον, ου, τό
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Transliteration: skandalon
Phonetic Spelling: (skan’-dal-on)
Short Definition: a snare, stumbling-block

Definition: a snare, stumbling-block, cause for error.

4625 skándalon – properly, the trigger of a trap (the mechanism closing a trap down on the unsuspecting victim); (figuratively) an offense, putting a negative cause-and-effect relationship into motion.

4625 /skándalon (“the means of stumbling”) stresses the method (means) of entrapment, i.e. how someone is caught by their own devices (like their personal bias, carnal thinking).

Examples

1 John 2:10 N-NNS
GRK: μένει καὶ σκάνδαλον ἐν αὐτῷ
NAS: and there is no cause for stumbling in him.
KJV: none occasion of stumbling in
INT: abides and cause for stumbling in him

Revelation 2:14 N-ANS
GRK: Βαλὰκ βαλεῖν σκάνδαλον ἐνώπιον τῶν
NAS: to put a stumbling block before
KJV: to cast a stumblingblock before
INT: Balak to cast a snare before the

Strong’s Greek: 4624. σκανδαλίζω (skandalizó) — 29 Occurrences

Original Word: σκανδαλίζω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: skandalizó
Phonetic Spelling: (skan-dal-id’-zo)
Short Definition: I cause to stumble
Definition: I cause to stumble, cause to sin, cause to become indignant, shock, offend.

Cognate: 4624 skandalízō – properly, set a snare (“stumbling-block“); (figuratively) “to hinder right conduct or thought; to cause to stumble” – literally, “to fall into a trap” (Abbott-Smith). See 4625 (skandalon).

Examples

Matthew 17:27 V-ASA-1P
GRK: δὲ μὴ σκανδαλίσωμεν αὐτούς πορευθεὶς
NAS: so that we do not offend them, go
KJV: lest we should offend them,
INT: moreover not we might offend them having gone

Matthew 18:6 V-ASA-3S
GRK: δ’ ἂν σκανδαλίσῃ ἕνα τῶν
NAS: but whoever causes one of these
KJV: But whoso shall offend one of these
INT: moreover anyhow shall cause to stumble one of the