They are both triangular, but there is one angle that is different, and that distinguishes the nature of each. Raymund Schwager, Jesus in the Drama of Salvation , p. 186. Reflections and Questions 1. But they are still instructive. In this context, Paul is using it to mark out the negative, jealousy, and countering it with the supreme form of non-rivalrous desire, agape .
Resentment is a state which has one always pondering evil against one's rivals.
In any case, Hamerton-Kelly's reflections on reforming desire are right on for this text. God's agape through Jesus Christ brings the possibility of reforming our desire away from jealousy and resentment to love. Can Be Jesus' Love . But he passed through the midst of them and went on his way. Jesus slips away at the end, the only difference in pre-figuring the last week of his life, when the crowd once again is fickle, changing from the cheers of Palm Sunday to the cheers of Good Friday.