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‎If a sincere and godly scruple—a fear of violating the will of God—had been the real inspiration of the question the Pharisees had put, it would have received some consideration at the hands of Christ, who was always patient with the contrite. But such was not at all the case, as shewn by their habitual disregard of the will of God in a hundred other things.
Roberts, R. (1983). Nazareth Revisted