Does Jesus hate poor people?

Because in Matthew 26 he says the poor are always going to be with us and he acts just real super dismissive.

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No, I don't think Jesus hates poor people at all.

I think you really like some. I think that's why he said that stuff that he did back at the very, very beginning of his time in public where he laid out the values of the kingdom with his like his very first speech and he's like

blessed or the poor and spirit and he says that like right away right at the front

end yeah I think he has a real soft spot for people who are lowly poor and poor and

poor and spirit.

I think he's making a different point here in Matthew chapter 26 in this passage that we've been looking at together

that feels like a little interlude in the action where whether Matthew is taking us on a flashback journey or

whether an evening is passing here and we're getting an incident that looks a lot

like one that unfolded maybe a few days earlier in the week.

Either way, this story about Jesus being anointed at the House of Simon the Leper

is one that gives us a famous biblical phrase that is often repeated by religious people, non-religious people,

and the phrases, the poor will always be with us or the poor you will always have with you.

And that could certainly be taken to be harsh or dismissive,

but I think we just need to take a minute and think about it

in light of what we're looking at here.

And look, I don't want to oversell the problem here. I think this is a pretty easy

one to sort through. Okay so this lady she dumps out the super expensive perfume. We learn from other

accounts that we're probably looking at like a years worth of money that she just burned

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