Now it gets even worse – ‘He came unto his own’, the Jews. You have got a picture almost of somebody out in the cold weather, and there is ice on the ground, and it is freezing.
Didn’t his miracles tip the balance in his favour? There could scarcely have been a family untouched without somebody who was terribly handicapped, or blind, or leprous, or demon-possessed, or sick, who had not been healed. Did they not all rejoice? No, because alongside those remarkable and widespread healings that affected everyone, he preached repentance and remission of sin. He censured their earthly expectations, and represented repentance and reconciliation with God.