Title: Go with him two miles
Roman law required one.
The Lord Jesus encouraged an additional mile.
The Jews had to walk a total of four miles coming back to the place of origin.
This is when the Jew refused to take even one step in the service of the oppressor.
Christianity requires sacrifice of the noblest nature. As an act of obedience in the Spirit, we divest ourselves of all self-interest in order to witness to the love of God which surpasses all understanding.
Title: He had compassion on them
The mark of a genuine leader is compassion, when compassion is defined as “to suffer with”.
The Lord Jesus didn’t estrange himself from the darkness and the ignorance and the hopelessness that had oppressed the people and the land.
He had nothing to gain, but all to give.
He was drawn to the people because of their illnesses, their spiritual blindness, their callous rebellion, their superficial worship, their helplessness against attacks by evil spirits, their heavy burdens, their transgressions; and he was more than willing to suffer with them and for them, in order to make them partakers of life and the resurrection they never deserved.
Title: Neither this man nor his parents sinned
Knowing who sinned is the prerogative of God.
Since God is eternally holy, he can identify sin in the temporal realm, in the deepest recesses of our being, even in our intentions and in our thoughts.
The Lord Jesus cannot be the Savior unless he knows who have sinned and the consequences of transgression, as he came as the only solution to lawlessness that salvation might be manifested as the work of God throughout all the generations from Adam until sin and death be swallowed up in victory and time fades into eternity.
Title: You are the Son of God
Who would be able to recognize the Deity and the Kingship of the Lord Jesus but the one in whom there is nothing false; and this would not escape God’s notice and testimony, while a lesser character would have failed to see the Son of God in a carpenter’s son.