Jesus said if someone slaps you, turn and show the other cheek. Is such a teaching relevant today?

If Jesus might have said that too, he is the twelve people who are around him. That's not a general teaching.

To his apostles, people who carry his message, he's telling them, if somebody slaps you once, I'd show them the other's cheek.

He's not telling that to the whole world.

That man is the way he lived, he's not the kind to show another cheek, he comes to the temple and throws out all the business.

So he didn't say, okay, you've got one shop here, keep another shop there, did he say that?

Physically, with bare hands, he's destroying their business, isn't it?

He's not the kind of man who'll show his other cheek to everybody. He's telling his apostles, if you want to carry my message, you must feel like this.

No resistance in you, no matter what people do, you don't deviate from your path, you just tick to your path, that's all he's telling you.

Because these cultures are very dialectical, everything is set with an example or a kind of, you know, an analogy.

He's saying that, if somebody slaps you in one cheek, show them the other, don't deviate.

If somebody slaps you in one cheek, if you try to slap him on other cheek, on his cheek, then you deviate him from your path of peace and love, isn't it?

So he's saying, do not deviate from your path, just tick to your path, no matter what somebody does.

All he's saying, telling you is, do not become a reaction in your life.

If you want to act in your life, you should not react. If you react, you will get enslaved to somebody else, you'll go behind those people.

So he's just telling you, do not react, that's his way of saying it. So that's not to be taken literally.

His life demonstrates, he didn't take it literally, isn't it?

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