In Luke 19, we have one of the accounts of one of Jesus’ cleansings of the temple, and then Luke says: “And he was teaching daily in the temple. The chief priests and the scribes and the principal men of the people were seeking to destroy him, but they did not find anything they could do, for all the people were hanging on his words.”
The picture that I get is that most of the common people were no longer paying attention to their “principal men” anymore, because they couldn’t get enough of Jesus. So their “principal men” got angry and desperate to recover their lost ground, but found themselves powerless because the people weren’t paying any attention to them.
How powerful is belief. In the face of the most murderous opposition to Christ, belief in the truth was the primary deterrent to falsity. By the same token, if we are more engaged by the moral arguments of our “principal men,” does that not actually lend power to those who oppose Christianity?
On whose words do I hang?
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