“You’ve heard that it was said.but I say unto you…” Yet in Matthew 5, Jesus declared six times, Injured in the identical fashion by a court-appointed These witnesses will see to it that you yourself will be “You better stop the fight now, because if youĬontinue the fight and seriously injure me, then all So, Jesus was not referring to serious injury at all, but was instead suggesting that those who are having a fist fight (or worse) but who have not yet caused any permanent or serious injury to each other, that they not escalate the fight but instead turn the other cheek. Someone knocks out a tooth on the right, turn to Your right eye, turn to him the left eye and if Him the right side of your jaw and if someone blinds “If someone breaks your jaw on the left side, turn to But notice Jehovah’s Old Testament Law referred to an actual serious or permanent injury (like a fractured nose or fractured jaw, a blinded eye or a missing tooth), whereas Jesus merely referred to someone being slapped or struck on the face with no mention of any serious injury at all.
If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them theīecause of this statement, most people conclude Jesus overruled the Old Testament “eye for an eye” law. Tooth for tooth.' But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. “You have heard that it was said, ‘Eye for eye, and
Obviously, this terrible situation (once again caused by the Pharisees) had to be corrected by Christ. As a result, the very “eye for an eye” law that was supposed to deter violence and revenge when publically enforced by the courts in the courtyard, instead became a mob cry to motivate violence and revenge in the streets as if violence and revenge was now sanctioned by God himself. So, rather than publically enforce God’s “eye for an eye” law as an official judicial punishment in the courtyard, the Pharisees most likely taught the people to enforce their own “eye for an eye law” in the streets. This public courtyard punishment was God’s optimal method to deter violent crime.īut according to Jesus in Matthew 23:23, the Pharisees and Teachers of the Law neglected enforcing God’s justice. This law specified how the court was supposed to punish violent criminals who seriously or permanently injured their victims. In the same manner: fracture for fracture, eye for eye,
“Anyone who injures their neighbor is to be injured “Did Jesus overrule, change or cancel the
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