Great insight, Wendi. There are so many passages that work this way, whether intentionally or not. (It may have been Jesus' intention but not the author's, for example.) I often judge the disciples when Jesus criticizes them when I would have held their position; I've criticized the cruelty of the priest and Levite in the parable of the good Samaritan instead of regarding them as men trying to keep legally clean. It's reading for specks with a beam in your eye, and seeing yourself only in the best and most praised figures in the text.