Luke 13

"31 On that very day some Pharisees came, saying to Him, “Get out and depart from here, for Herod wants to kill You.”


Is this Pharisee warning Jesus out of good intention? Perhaps. He was there when Jesus spoke of the narrow way to Salvation. From this Pharisee and the ruler of the synogogue in Mark chapter 5, we can see there are some highly positioned Jews who were once influenced by Jesus. However, they were not influential in trying to save Jesus. They were like the 9 who did not return to thank Jesus after being healed of their leporsy. Let us not become like them, those who forget God's grace and blessing for us. Those who forget to repay God for the love He showed us. Those who forget to stand up for God when the time comes for that. Jesus warned us saying, "8 Also I say to you, whoever confesses Me before men, him the Son of Man also will confess before the angels of God. 9 But he who denies Me before men will be denied before the angels of God" (Luke 12). And surely, Jesus has denied the Pharisees and lumped them together when He spoke of the woes of the Pharisees in Matthew chapter 23. Let us be recognized before the angels of God as individuals and not be lumped together with those who denied God :)