Christ was willing to suffer and be despised, and darest thou complain of anything?

We complain today that ministers do not know how to preach; but is it not equally true that our congregations do not know how to hear?

Discontent is a sin that is its own punishment and makes men torment themselves; it makes the spirit sad, the body sick, and all the enjoyments sour; it is the heaviness of the heart and the rottenness of the bones. It is a sin that is its own parent. It arises not from the condition, but from the mind. As we find Paul contented in a prison, so Ahab discontent in a palace. Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible (McLean, Mac Donald Publishing Company) 694