Jesus was His own person. The Teachers of the Law hated it. They couldn’t stand for a construction worker from Galilee to speak with such confidence about God’s ways. What they really hated was that He never asked them for permission to do so. He simply did it. In the end, they hated Him so much that they killed Him.
Funny thing is that by killing Jesus, they killed their own cause. Following His death and resurrection, Jesus’ followers proclaimed that Jesus had rescued them from their own sin, that He loved them, and that this is why He died for them. Therefore, in following Jesus they didn’t have to try to live up to the crazy standards that the Teachers of the the Law tried to weigh them down with. They were free. Legalism was dead. In killing Jesus, the legalists inadvertently killed legalism.
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