![]() ![]() ![]() Men fear being hanged for what they do not fear being damned for. Herod feared that the putting of John to death might raise a rebellion among the people, which it did not but he never feared it might stir up his own conscience against him, which it did. False professors, or timid Christians, may censure it as want of civility but the most powerful enemies can go no further than the Lord sees good to permit. The world may call this rudeness and blind zeal. When men pretend to favour the gospel, yet live in evil, we must not favour their self-delusion, but must deliver our consciences as John did. But there may be the terror of convictions, where there is not the truth of conversion. Verses 1-12 The terror and reproach of conscience, which Herod, like other daring offenders, could not shake off, are proofs and warnings of a future judgment, and of future misery to them. (1-12) Five thousand people miraculously fed.
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