John 8:14,15

Though I bear record of myself,— "Though I call myself the Light of the world, ye are not to imagine that I do it from a spirit of pride and falsehood. I give myself the title for no other reason but because it truly belongs to me: and that it does so, you yourselves would acknowledge, if you knew as well as I do by what authority I act, for what end I am come, and to whom I must return after I have executed my divine commission. But of these things you are entirely ignorant; nor can be otherwise, in regard that you judge after the flesh. You judge of me according to outward appearances, and condemn me for this, among other things, that I judge no man. You think that I cannot be the Messiah, because I do not destroy those who oppose me, as you imagine the Messiah will do; but in this you are altogether mistaken; for the design of the Messiah's coming is not to destroy, but to save mankind." See Ch. John 3:17. It is to be observed, that the same carnal prejudices still prevail in the minds of the Jews, and prevent their reception of Christ; they layingit down as a first principle, that he is to be a great temporal prince and deliverer; and the admissionof false principles, which are constantly taken for granted, and never examined, will, it is to be feared, be attended with fatal consequences to myriads more.