Luke 6:7

And the scribes and Pharisees watched Him

The wily watchers of the good

I. THEY ARE EVER ON THE OUTLOOK FOB AN APPARENT BREACH OF SOME CONVENTIONAL LAW.

1. These men are cunning.

2. They are diligent.

3. They are malicious.

II. THEIR GREAT DESIRE IS TO SLANDER THOSE WHOM THEY WATCH.

III. THEY ARE NOT TO BE ALLOWED TO INTERRUPT THE DUTY OF THE GOOD. Lessons:

1. Never be set by Satan to watch the conduct of the good to find defects.

2. Seek to find all the good in men you can.

3. Think of the heavenly watchers of the good. (J. S. Exell, M. A.)

Unsabbatical

The Pharisees are looking with keen hungry eyes upon One whom they have marked as their victim. To cherish these feelings, to be plotting murder, was not in their judgment at all unsabbatical. Their reverence for the law of God led them, so they believed, into this state of mind. (F. D. Maurice.)