Then there arose a question between some of John’s disciples and the Jews about purifying.
Ignorance is always bold and presumptuous. John's disciples pick a fight they cannot win, neither understanding baptism itself nor grasping that Christ, not their master, holds all authority. Their real sin is ambition dressed up as devotion, they defend John's honor rather than God's truth.
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Christ went about weary in His journeyings to do good to souls. He left Jerusalem where His words made noise but did little good; the country received Him better because the great men there had less hold. His disciples stuck with Him through it all, following the ark whithersoever it moved.
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Commenting on John 3:22-36
The disciples come to John barely naming Christ at all, just "he that was with thee beyond Jordan", as if to say their master's testimony built Christ up from nothing. They see His baptizing as intrusion into John's office, when in truth He needs no office to exceed all authority.
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