WE consider the works of Jesus marvelous, and so they are, but they are not more marvelous than his words.
It never seemed to him necessary to adapt Truth to the preconceived views of those in error, to change the Law of God to correspond to the laws made by those who were under the law of sin and sense, and so fettered by its unjust bonds, that the "perfect law of God" was often accounted one of transgression, and obedience to it condemned one as a transgressor.
We have, few, perhaps no accounts, of the Master's words, when it is not recorded that "they murmured within themselves," that they were in doubt, that they questioned among themselves what this might mean. Even loving disciples, doubted in their heart, and many interested followers journeyed not far, because of the "hard-sayings" that so soon confronted them; while the Jews thrust him from the synagogue because the language of God, was to them, but as blasphemy, and the enraged populace declared his words rank heresy, and his teachings but the "stirring up of seditions." A law-breaker and one who proclaims strange doctrines, was the common verdict; yet Jesus himself says, "I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil." In the beginning the "Word was with God," and no new thing did he utter.
