The targets of this story are not wayward sinners but religious people who do everything the Bible requires. Jesus is pleading not so much with immoral outsiders as with moral insiders. H wants to show them their blindness, narrowness, and self righteousness, and how these things are destroying both their own souls and the lives of the people around them.

It is possible to avoid Jesus as Savior as much by keeping all the Biblical rules as by breaking them.

Jesus's miracles are not just a challenge to our minds, but a promise to our hearts, that the world we all want is coming.

We are free to fight sin, and free to win; but we must still fight.

Jesus Christ as only an example will crush you. You'll never be able to live up to it. But Jesus Christ as the Lamb will save you.

The story of Jesus changes our lives because it is true.

Friends become wiser together through a healthy clash of viewpoints.