Tag: poor
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For you will always have the poor – 5
Help the poor later or honor Jesus now? Sell everything you have and follow me. Leave your hometown and follow me. Give up you job and follow me. These things Jesus had asked of his followers and for three years they all followed on foot. The culmination of events, so it seemed, came two days before…
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For you will always have the poor – 3
For there will never cease to be poor in the land. Therefore I command you, ‘You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in your land.’ – Deuteronomy 15:11 Certainly Jesus could have been referring to this command of Moses. Thus far we have examined two of the…
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For you will always have the poor
Why mention the poor? Once again, Jesus makes what appears to be an offhand remark about the poor. Jesus often criticized the leaders of Temple and Pharisees for their treatment of the poor; doesn’t this remark catch you off guard? It would be easy enough to lose the context of Jesus’ apparent ambivalence toward the…