3:6 {2} And the Pharisees went forth, and straightway took counsel with the {e} Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.
(2) The more the truth is suppressed, the more it comes out.
(e) See Mt 22:16.
3:6 Pharisees. See PNT Mt 3:7.
Herodians. See PNT Mt 22:16.
Took counsel. Already these inveterate enemies were resolved to destroy Jesus. They took counsel how it might be done. As they went to the partisans of Herod, who ruled in Galilee, they probably sought to persuade them to have Herod put him to death.
3:6 The Pharisees going out - Probably leaving the scribes to watch him still: took counsel with the Herodians - as bitter as they usually were against each other.
3:6-12 All our sicknesses and calamities spring from the anger of God against our sins. Their removal, or the making them blessings to us, was purchased to us by the blood of Christ. But the plagues and diseases of our souls, of our hearts, are chiefly to be dreaded; and He can heal them also by a word. May more and more press to Christ to be healed of these plagues, and to be delivered from the enemies of their souls.
