NOTES for Mat 27:24

This is exactly what we should fear and carefully watch in ourselves: are we retreating, are we denying Christ by refusing to struggle for Him? However this struggle may show itself, how often it is easiest simply to wash one's hands and think at the same time that nothing more depends on me. How hard it is to state openly that the person you are speaking with is wrong; it is much easier to agree that there are different options. How hard it is to say openly: "Yes, He died and rose, and I believe this." How hard it is to say openly, "Yes, He died and rose, and I believe this." All these statements imply that the other person is mistaken about something very important, and such opposition can offend him to the depths of his soul. Nevertheless, there are things in which we have no possibility of retreating or consenting to our own inaction, because the Lord told us: "...whoever denies Me before people, I also will deny before My Father in heaven" (Matt. 10:33).