When Jesus begins to walk the streets of Palestine creates a confusion that will not tell you.
The confrontation with the Pharisees (the separate those who do not want to mingle with those who do not respect the law: a kind of party composed of craftsmen and small traders, social class, the HAT appartenev Jesus) is immediate, because impose a religion riddled with obligations that are suffocating the poor. For more
. these gentlemen preach good and evil scratching: rob and oppress the widows (the weaker social group: there was a pension at the time of Jesus and a woman left alone had no means to defend themselves), and even abandon elderly parents with falsely pious excuse that they had offered their property to the temple.
is no less immediate confrontation with the scribes, the intellectuals of the time - usually recruited from among the Pharisees - who know the Bible well, but do not do it.
Equally strong is the clash with the priests: the descendants of the family of Levi, those who rule, although under the control the Roman procurator, because the power to exploit their advantage. Even the temple is an opportunity for them to work.
Jesus shames them publicly and blatantly driving out the merchants and money changers from the temple that, with the permission of concerned lorsignori (we took the lace! 9 busy temple.
And with the Sadducees: The components of the noble families and rich in Class sacedotale?
Jesus blurted in their faces that will enter the kingdom of God will come when a camel through the eye of a needle.
Even with the crowds, he is soft when he realizes that follows him to eat a free ride.
A. .. this little chap is a quiet man? a man of peace? Certainly not quiet. Of peace. Provided that peace is what he means.
what is this peace? The peace of Jesus is building the world as God has thought proper, beautiful, hospitable to all its children. His peace, justice, mutual respect, care for the weak and the poor, forgiveness, Amon among the creatures, and between them and the creator.
E 'peace that comes from the daily struggle against selfishness, not the sleep of indifference.
A peace that does not resemble that of lntanamente even those who do not want to fuss and trouble, and so it hangs himself of the affairs of others, does not see, hear, or speak, he was not there, because when he is fine, other just ...
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