Mark 3:6 And the Pharisees went forth, and straightway took counsel with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him. A generous nature would have hoped for some other result than is here described; that on reflection they would mark the love, the omnipotence, the courage and the tenderness of Christ. Marking these things they might have learned some more excellent way than that bondage of scrupulous forms under which they groaned. But, alas! they only feel their discomfiture — not the Saviour's greatness; the wound given to their pride — not the lesson given to their conscience. All His greatness seems to them a reason only for making their efforts to suppress Him more rigorous. And from the gracious teaching and the wondrous works of the Saviour they gather only harm and hatred. How true it is that "the carnal mind is enmity against God." There is in all of us something which, if not checked, will grow into hatred of our Saviour. Our envy will make us dislike His goodness; our pride, His authority; our evil, the purity of His precepts; while our indolence will make us dislike His very love, because of the obligations under which it lays us. (R. Glover.) Parallel Verses KJV: And the Pharisees went forth, and straightway took counsel with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him. |
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