The First Reading from the book of Wisdom speaks of those lacking is righteousness, conspiring against the wise and the righteous man. This is the way of life, and this brings to mind the Commandments of Jealousy and Envy. The persecutors know the truth and as yet are trying to pull down the truth.
In the Gospel reading we see a similar scenario playing out with Jesus. There is nothing to show that Jesus has taught wrongly, except that He claimed to be God (indirectly), and associated Himself with God in more familiar words, then the decorum they used (like court language), to refer to God. The bias in their hearts was that Jesus showed greater righteousness, then the righteousness the Pharisees, Sadducees, Scribes and Authorities claimed for themselves. So the speck of bias became a log in their eye; and they could not understand how a commoner, that too from Northern Israel be the Messiah.
But God is faithful. He does not desert His own. We see this in Jesus’ resurrection, and today’s Responsorial Psalm also speaks the same…
to destroy remembrance of them from the earth.
When the just cry out, the LORD hears them,
and from all their distress he rescues them.
R. The Lord is close to the brokenhearted.
and those who are crushed in spirit he saves.
Many are the troubles of the just man,
but out of them all the LORD delivers him.
R. The Lord is close to the brokenhearted.
not one of them shall be broken.
The LORD redeems the lives of his servants;
no one incurs guilt who takes refuge in him.
R. The Lord is close to the brokenhearted.