Jean Racine: "Betapa mengagumkan dan indah kesederhanaan Penginjil! Me...

"Betapa mengagumkan dan indah kesederhanaan Penginjil! Mereka tidak pernah berbicara tentang musuh-musuh Yesus Kristus, para hakim-Nya, atau para algojo-Nya. Mereka melaporkan fakta tanpa refleksi tunggal. Mereka tidak berkomentar tentang kelembutan Tuan mereka ketika Dia dipukul, atau pada keteguhan-Nya pada saat kematian-Nya yang memalukan, yang dengan demikian mereka gambarkan: "Dan mereka menyalibkan Yesus."

--- Jean Racine

Versi Bahasa Inggris

How admirable and beautiful is the simplicity of the Evangelists! They never speak injuriously of the enemies of Jesus Christ, of His judges, nor of His executioners. They report the facts without a single reflection. They comment neither on their Master's mildness when He was smitten, nor on His constancy in the hour of His ignominious death, which they thus describe: "And they crucified Jesus.