These words were spoken recently by a judge in Australia. He was commenting on the famous case about the visa for the tennis star, Novak Djokovic. The implication was that there was nothing else Djokovic could have done.
Similar words were spoken of God Himself. Centuries ago a Jewish prophet pleaded with the disobedient people using a parable where they were likened to workers in a vineyard. God is represented as saying:
What more could have been done to My vineyard that I have not done in it?
Isaiah 5:4
But there was something else God was prepared to do. Years later Jesus reminded his contemporaries of this parable, but added:
…the owner of the vineyard said, ‘What shall I do? I will send my beloved son.’
Luke 20:13
And God did: He sent His only son Jesus Christ. This act of supreme love was the very most that God could actually do for human beings. He sent His beloved son to save us from eternal death. And that involved the cruel death of Jesus, who said:
John 15:13–14
Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. You are my friends if you do whatever I command you.
So what more can we do? Surely our response to this love is to be Jesus’ friends. And this requires us to read the Bible and to find out what he, and God Himself, ask of us.