most profound part of the narrative - he returned to the ones who betrayed him
'when we sin, the very heart of christ is drawn out to us...
the more corrupt one's heart, the less one is affected by the evils all around - we need hard feet and soft hearts - we are corruptable - God is uncorruptable
'Just as the purer the heart, the more horrified at evil, so also the purer heart, the more it is naturally drawn out to help and relieve and protect and comfort, wheras a corrupt heart sits still, indifferent. Sop with Christ. His holiness finds evil revolting, mnore revolting than any of us ever could feel. But it is that very holiness that also draws his heart out to help and relieve and protect and comfort..... to those who belong to him, sin evokes holy longing, holy love, holy tenderness... Isaiah 6 - a key text which shows the divine power and magesty and holiness that flows immediately into forgivenss and mercy...
Thomas Goodwin puts it like this... 'consider the hatred the father has against a terrible disease afflicting his child - the father hates the disease while loving the child. Indeed, at some level the presence of the disease draws out his heart to his child all the more.'