Sentences with phrase «gladly by the common people»

In contrast with the priest from the temple, and the scribe from the synagogue, Jesus was listened to gladly by the common people, and finally it was not the irreligious, but the religious authorities who had Jesus put to death, for He constituted too severe a threat to the vested interests of religion.

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In his day the common people heard him gladly because he demonstrated in himself the reality of the kingdom by the warmth of his sympathy and the depth of his insight.

Pittenger also discriminates among the various kinds of response to Jesus: rejection «by the authorities of Church and State,» «puzzlement on the part of local religious leaders,» «the acceptance of the common people who heard him gladly,» and «the utter loyalty and devotion found in the circle of his disciples» (CR 76f).