“But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him.”
But the Pharisees and the experts in the law rejected God's purpose for themselves, because they had not been baptized by John — the contrast: the Pharisees and teachers of the law who rejected John's baptism have rejected God's purpose (boulē, plan, counsel) for themselves. The rejection of John's baptism is the rejection of the divine plan — a self-exclusion from the kingdom's trajectory.
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