Hey, this is John from the Bible Project. Today we're going to continue a conversation on

biblical justice. There are two terms in the Bible, justice and righteousness, and they're

coupled together when talking about the Bible's view of a just society. And what it looks

like is pretty clear, it's a society that takes care of the vulnerable, specifically the

widow, the orphan, the poor, and the immigrant, or what theologians have called the quartets

of the vulnerable. In this episode, we're going to look at Jesus and how he carries this

rich tradition of biblical justice forward. Jesus comes onto the scene and bodies this prophetic

vision of Mishpat. He's constantly moving towards the vulnerable and including them first.

This is what the gospel of Luke intentionally turns up the volume on that part of Jesus'

mission. This is good news for the poor. It's Mishpat for the poor. So we're going to

talk about Jesus, his mission of justice, and why it's crucial for us to think of humans

as being made in the image of God. Here we go.

How does this come to its climax in Jesus? Yeah, that's what we haven't talked about.

No, no, we haven't even talked about Jesus. We haven't talked about Jesus.

So maybe I can just do a quick breeze through what I think the storyline could be like.

All of this is rooted in the way the Bible works as a unified story. All of this is rooted

in humans as the image of God. The ones who are supposed to be ruling the world on God's

purpose. Yeah, what makes a human different from praying mantis in any dillard terms?

Many things. Yeah, well many, yeah, there's a lot of things. But in terms of the Bible's

vision of what humans are, humans uniquely are the divine image, representations of God

appointed to be responsible and steward and rule over the world and its resources in a way

that no other species has proofed capable. Even though many other species of creatures

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