Verse 25
§ 91. JESUS STATES THE DIFFICULTIES OF PROFESSING CHRIST.
25. There went great multitudes These multitudes followed him as friends and partizans perhaps as he walked from the feast to his place of abode.
See note on Luke 13:32. The miracles, the preaching, the power of Jesus’s character, attracted floating multitudes, whose feelings were deeply stirred, but whose souls were not renovated by the truth. They trailed after his footsteps rather than followed his precepts; being followers not in a spiritual but in a mere bodily sense. So it is that, in periods of religious excitement, light minds are often flung upon the Church, which she hardly knows what to do with.
Turned. and said Jesus presents to them that true disperser of such chaff the cross.
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