Baptised Baptism Baptized Counsel Experts Expounders Frustrated God's John Law Lawyers Null Pharisees Purpose Refusing Rejected Rendered Teachers Themselves
7:30 But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God {d} against themselves, being not baptized of him.
(d) To their own hurt.
7:18-33 The disciples of John. For notes on John's message, Christ's reply, and discourses about John, see Mt 11:2-19.
7:30 But the Pharisees and scribes - The good, learned, honourable men: made void the counsel, the gracious design, of God toward them - They disappointed all these methods of his love, and would receive no benefit from them.
7:19-35 To his miracles in the kingdom of nature, Christ adds this in the kingdom of grace, To the poor the gospel is preached. It clearly pointed out the spiritual nature of Christ's kingdom, that the messenger he sent before him to prepare his way, did it by preaching repentance and reformation of heart and life. We have here the just blame of those who were not wrought upon by the ministry of John Baptist or of Jesus Christ himself. They made a jest of the methods God took to do them good. This is the ruin of multitudes; they are not serious in the concerns of their souls. Let us study to prove ourselves children of Wisdom, by attending the instructions of God's word, and adoring those mysteries and glad tidings which infidels and Pharisees deride and blaspheme.
Baptized Counsel Experts God's Including John John's Lawyers Null Pharisees Purpose Rejected Rendered Righteousness Tax-Gatherers Teachers Themselves Upheld
Baptized Counsel Experts God's Including John John's Lawyers Null Pharisees Purpose Rejected Rendered Righteousness Tax-Gatherers Teachers Themselves Upheld
