I asked you to explain one simple verse and yet you do not explain it. What does verse 41 mean?
Even though I never taught Sunday school to children, I will try to give you a long detailed answer so you can understand the full meaning and context.
Go above and beyond to help others.
Next week our lesson will be on Mark 12:30-31.
Teaching About Retaliation. 38 “You have heard that it was said,X)' data-cr="#cen-NABRE-27592X"> ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ 39But I say to you, offer no resistance to one who is evil. When someone strikes you on [your] right cheek, turn the other one to him as well. 40 If anyone wants to go to law with you over your tunic, hand him your cloak as well. 41
Should anyone press you into service for one mile, go with him for two miles 42 Give to the one who asks of you, and do not turn your back on one who wants to borrow.
Love of Enemies. “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy. 44 But I say to you, love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you, 45 that you may be children of your heavenly Father, for he makes his sun rise on the bad and the good, and causes rain to fall on the just and the unjust. 46 For if you love those who love you, what recompense will you have? Do not the tax collectors do the same? 47 And if you greet your brothers only, what is unusual about that? Do not the pagans do the same? 48 So be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect.
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isn't this funny that Jesus is supposedly talking to Jews about enemies, who are their enemies, the Greeks and the Romans.
So the Romans soldiers when they forced a native into service f to carry their load for 1 mile, (they had mile markers on the roads) Jesus said go with them 2.
Sure sound Jesus was pro Roman as he is talking to the Jews about how to treat the Romans.
Jesus tells the Samaritan story, the one who stopped to help, yet he tells the Samaritans, salvation if from the Jews. Sure sounds like he want to stop a civil war and infighting.