Matthew 5:40
Sunday, 15 December 2024 If anyone wants to sue you and take away your tunic, let him have your cloak also. Matthew 5:40 “And the ‘determining to sue you’ and your tunic to take, you send him also the cloak” (CG). In the previous verse, Jesus told the disciples that when someone slaps one of them on the right cheek, he should turn the other to him also. He continues now in a similar line of thinking with, “And the ‘determining to sue you.’” It is a way of describing a person who has determined to sue another. In such a case, Jesus adds, “and your tunic to take.” The tunic or chitón, is the…
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