Jesus did His best to tell the Pharisees who He was. He gave them every chance to make a life change. He told them the benefit of following Him. Never walk in darkness? Have the light of life? Why would anyone refuse those promises? The Pharisees, caught in the pride of their religious practices and the man-inspired certainty of what their messiah would look like, found every excuse imaginable to deny Him. We discussed in Sunday school how it is God’s will for all to be saved but it is man’s will to receive salvation or not. The Pharisees chose not. They preferred religion to relationship. How very, very sad.