Religious Scruples That Miss the Greatest Sin
The Sanhedrists who brought Jesus to Pilate exhibited a moral blindness so profound that Maclaren could scarcely contain his astonishment. These men had condemned an...
This is historical examples on spiritual blindness and formalism versus genuine righteousness, drawing on John 18:28-40.
The Sanhedrists who brought Jesus to Pilate exhibited a moral blindness so profound that Maclaren could scarcely contain his astonishment. These men had condemned an innocent man to death—yet their conscience remained untroubled. But entering Pilate's palace, a house not purged of leaven (the Passover requirement) and defiled by Gentile residence, would stain their souls irreparably. Maclaren observes: 'Killing an innocent man would not in the least defile them, or unfit them for eating the Passover, but to go into a house that had not been purged of leaven, and was further unclean as the residence of a Gentile...…
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