Everyday sayings of Jesus
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Turning the other cheek
Someone insults you, but you refuse to insult them back. It’s a risky strategy, as it can be interpreted as weakness, but this is the essence of “turning the other cheek”.
This call to non-violence, which Jesus exemplified in his life, is one of his best-known sayings, and has had a huge influence, right down to our time. Mahatma Gandhi was inspired by it in his peaceful resistance to British colonialism in India in the 1930s and 40s, and Martin Luther King taught his followers to repay racist police violence with peaceful protest during the civil rights era in the 1950s and 60s. Here is the teaching of Jesus…
You know that you have been taught, “An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.” But I tell you not to try to get even with a person who has done something to you. When someone slaps your right cheek, turn and let that person slap your other cheek. If someone sues you for your shirt, give up your coat as well.
Matthew 5:38-40
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The salt of the earth… on the straight and narrow… a baptism of fire… many everyday sayings started with Jesus. Here are 30 of them. We’ve gathered the best known modern sayings and included some notes on what they mean and where you can find them in the accounts of Jesus’ life.
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Module contents
Index of sayings
A baptism of fire
The blind leading the blind
Casting your pearls before swine
Coming back from the dead
Counting the cost
A crown of thorns
A den of thieves
Do to others as you would have them do to you
Doubting Thomas
Falling on stony ground
Going the extra mile
A good samaritan
Having a cross to bear
Hiding your light under a bushel
Jesus wept!
Killing the fatted calf
The kiss of Judas
Left hand doesn't know what right hand is doing
Man cannot live by bread alone
A millstone around your neck
Moving mountains
On the straight and narrow
The prodigal returns
The salt of the earth
Separating the sheep from the goats
Sweating blood
Thirty pieces of silver
Turning the other cheek
Until kingdom come
A wolf in sheep's clothing
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Index of sayings A baptism of fire The blind leading the blind Casting your pearls before swine Coming back from the dead Counting the cost A crown of thorns A den of thieves Do to others as you would have them do to you Doubting Thomas Falling on stony ground Going the extra mile A good samaritan Having a cross to bear Hiding your light under a bushel Jesus wept! Killing the fatted calf The kiss of Judas Left hand doesn't know what right hand is doing Man cannot live by bread alone A millstone around your neck Moving mountains On the straight and narrow The prodigal returns The salt of the earth Separating the sheep from the goats Sweating blood Thirty pieces of silver Turning the other cheek Until kingdom come A wolf in sheep's clothing
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