God is wiser than man’s wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man’s strength” (1 Co 1:25). Christ’s sacrificial death and glorious resurrection are mankind’s only way of justification before a holy and righteous God. The incidents which are reported in the next portions of our text show the kind of response Christ wants to find in those who accept his way of the cross: vv. 33, 34—They came to Capernaum. When he was in the house, he asked them, “What were you arguing about on the
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