Luke 6:7 · World English Bible
Luke 6:7 Meaning The Scribes and the Pharisees Watched Him
The scribes and the Pharisees watched him, to see whether he would heal on the Sabbath, that they might find an accusation against him.
What does Luke 6:7 mean?
A man watching for a fault will witness a miracle and file it as evidence for the case he came with. Whatever a man is hunting for becomes the only thing capable of registering with him, and everything else passes through unfiled.
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A man watching for a fault will witness a miracle and file it as evidence for the case he came with.
Whatever a man is hunting for becomes the only thing capable of registering with him, and everything else passes through unfiled. Watching for a violation, a person can take in a healing and extract from it nothing but a date and a witness.
Vigilance of that kind feels like discernment from the inside, which is how men persecute in good conscience. Jesus was doing the very thing they claimed to defend, and their question made it unavailable to them. An accusing question leaves the power to convict and takes away the power to be changed by anything good.
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Live Luke 6:7 today
- Before you open your inbox or your messages, name what you are half expecting to find there. Then read the first few as if you had no idea what they said.
- With the person you are most sure you have figured out, your coworker, your brother, your partner, go one whole conversation without filing anything they say under the usual story.
- In the meeting where you already know who is going to be unreasonable, give yourself one job: find one thing they say that is right, and say so.
What good thing has been in front of you that you could not take in, because you came looking for something else?
The same truth in other traditions
Zen
A bowl already full takes in nothing poured into it. Arriving with your conclusion set, you leave with it unchanged.
Stoicism · Marcus Aurelius
What we take in is shaped by the judgment we bring to it, so examine the judgment before you trust what you think you saw.
Buddhism
The mind leans toward what it has practiced, and what it leans toward is what it finds. Practice hunting for faults and faults become the only thing in view.
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