The wisdom that framed the heavens and the earth silences his foes and fiercest opponents. They were left speechless and could not catch Jesus in anything that he said for they were reckoning with a divine mind. I love how Scripture says, "No one could say a word in reply, and from that day on no one dared to ask him any more questions" (Matt. 22:46). Divine mind, indeed!
Jesus, I imagine, was emotionally exhausted. He had by this time already had his authority challenged, taught and rebuked, answered crafty and tricky questions of those seeking to arrest him, stripped the Pharisees of their self-righteousness, and now after experiencing such righteous anger, Jesus laments over Jerusalem's coming desolation with such sorrow. "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!"
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