Mark 10:32-34 - Homilies By E. Johnson

The coincidence of opposites.

Once more the forecast of shame and death.

I. MEN FLY IN THE FACE OF THEIR INTEREST , AND TREAT THEIR BENEFACTORS AS ENEMIES . Christ foresaw that the ruling party would be angry with him "because he told them the truth." And we partake of this guilt. We are blind to love in its disguise. We hate that which reproaches us. It is an error of the understanding and of the heart.

II. PROVIDENCE BRINGS GOOD OUT OF OUR EVIL , AND FURTHERS OUR SALVATION IN SPITE OF OURSELVES . So limited is the power of passion, it gains but a momentary end. The patriot or the traitor falls by the hand of the assassin or the judicial murderer; and his principle takes the deeper root, watered by his blood. Christ's resurrection is the eternal type of all moral victories.—J.