Matthew 5:38–42 is part of the Sermon on the Mount in which Jesus teaches about how to respond to insults and persecution.

Jesus flips the world system of 'justice' on its head. He tells His disciples to seek out opportunities to serve rather than looking for opportunities to exact ...

10 мая 2024 г. · Here, Jesus is specifying a strike on the right cheek, which implies a back-handed slap. Striking someone with the back of the hand (3) could ...

1 мар. 2021 г. · Jesus reminds us that we are to redeem rather than to try to get even. A slap on the cheek in Jesus' day was more a social insult than a physical injury.

Jesus has an alternative strategy for dealing with evil. His objective is to overcome evil with good. His goal was to overcome humiliation by shaming those in ...

16 янв. 2024 г. · Jesus' command to turn the other cheek is simply a command to forgo retaliation for personal offenses.

The meaning of the whole passage evidently is, rather than return evil for evil: when the wrong is purely personal, submit to one bodily injury after another, ...

In Matthew 5:38-41 , Jesus made three radical statements. First, He said that a person should turn the other cheek when someone strikes him.

27 окт. 2022 г. · The Lord Jesus enjoins on us a spirit of universal love and charity. We ought to put away all malice. We ought to return good for evil, and ...