Some of the statements of Jesus Christ are well known and quotable and have even become folkloric in ours and many other cultures:
Love one another. (John13:34)
Treat other people like you would want to be treated. (Luke 6:31) (The Golden Rule)
Rejoice. (Luke 10:20)
Give to Caesar things that are Caesar’s. (Mark 12:17)
You shall love your neighbor as yourself. (Mark 12:31)
Seek and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you. (Luke 11:9)
All these sayings are good advice for living a moral life. But some of his statements may be some kind of cryptogram that is for us to decipher as the message may not be as clear as it is in his more simple statement. Many of his statements are shrouded in analogy, parable and metaphor.
Some may not really be cryptic, just unheard of for failure to be repeated either because of lack of understanding or because the message may be disagreeable. Some of his statements can be considered indictments against modern day hypocrisy.
Here is a list of 48 of the more obscure statements of the things commanded of us by Jesus, according to religious scholar, Daniel Putnam Green:
“Do not resist evil.” (Matthew 5:38-39)
When you pray, enter into your closet, and when you have shut the door, pray to your Father which is in secret. (Matthew 6:6)
Make to yourself friends by sharing unrighteous money, that, when you fail, they may receive you into everlasting homes. (Luke 16:9)
Fear God. (Luke 12:5)
Beware of men. (Matthew 10:17)
Be as wise as serpents. (Matthew 10:16)
Beware of the doctrine of church leaders. (Matthew 16:6-12)
Walk the second mile for Jesus. (Matthew 5:41)
If your right hand offend you, cut it off. (Matthew 5:30)
Take heed how you hear. (Luke 8:18)
Remember Lot’s wife. (Luke 27:32)
Call no man your father upon the Earth, for one is your Father, which is in heaven. (Matthew 23:9)
Stay ready. (Luke 12:40)
Watch. (Mark 13:37)
Do not defraud anybody, ever. (Mark 10:19)
Take heed for yourselves. (Mark 13:9)
Strive to enter in at the strait gate. (Luke 13:24)
Endure until the end. (Mark 13:13)
Not all men can receive this saying but they to whom it is given. Some eunuchs have been castrated by men and some eunuchs have made the choice for themselves to be castrated, for the Kingdom of Heaven’s sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it. (Matthew 19:11-12)
You shall not tempt the Lord thy God. (Luke 4:12)
Don’t just vainly repeat the Lord’s Prayer over and over. (Matthew (6:7-13)
Let the dead bury their dead. (Luke 9:60)
When you fast, let it be not apparent. (Matthew 6:16-18)
Do not seek to save your own life. (Luke 17:13)
Be not afraid of them that kill the body. (Luke 12:4)
Make not the Father’s House a house of merchandise. (John 2:16)
Beware of church leaders, which devour widow’s houses and for a show make long prayers: the same shall receive greater damnation. ((Luke 20:46-47)
If your right eye offend you, pluck it out. (Matthew 5:29)
If you have a complaint against your brother, tell it to him before anyone else, in private, between just the two of you. (Matthew 18:15)
Never transgress the Commandment of God by your tradition. (Matthew 15:3)
When you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites are, for they love to pray standing in churches and in public places, that they may be seen of men. (Matthew 6:5)
Wash one another’s feet. (John 13:14-15)
Beware of the hypocrisy of the church leaders, for there is nothing hidden that shall not be known. (Like 12:1-2)
Always take the cheap seat for yourself. (Luke 14:8-11)
Forsake your attachment to your family, and to all that you own. (Luke 14-26-33)
Carefully count the cost of obedience to Christ. (Luke 14:28-35)
In your patience posses ye your souls. (Luke 21:19)
He that has no sword, let him sell something, and buy one. (Luke 22:36)
That not that I am come to send peace on earth: I am not to send peace, but a sword. (Matthew 10:34)
Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead and cast out devils. (Matthew 10:8)
If a man keep the sayings of the Savior, he shall never see death, and he shall never taste of death. (John 8:51-52)
Do not teach for doctrines the commandments of men. (Matthew 15:9)
Never rehearse for persecution. (Luke 12:12-14)
Serve God, or serve money, but you cannot serve them both. (Like 16:13)
Gather together in the name of the Lord, 2 or 3 people is fine, or maybe a few more, but small enough that everyone can have their full say. (Matthew 18:20)
Have salt in yourselves. (Mark 9:50)
Lend out your money at no interest, and your reward shall be great. (Luke 6:35)
Take heed that you be not deceived. (Luke 21:8)
Do not follow after charismatic religious leaders. (17:23)
Speculation and interpretation about these statements falls on the reader in order to extract their wisdom.
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