This describes our own “cancel culture” situation to a tee. And it is being carried out by leftists who make up arbitrary rules, signal their own virtue for keeping those rules, and try to destroy the lives of those who don’t follow them, who never agreed to them in the first place. Jesus’ response is a lesson in how to deal with virtue-signaling “woke” types. He “knew their thoughts,” but rather than conform or run away, He openly and publicly doubles down.
