Opposition to Totalitarianism

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Parties addressed

Key Quote

1. . V . "Saved" Leader (V means Versus or against!)

13:23-30

Someone

"there are first ones who will be last"

13:23 And said someone to him: Lord, if few the ones being saved? And he said to them: 24 Struggle to enter through the strait door, because many, I tell you will seek to enter and will not be able. 25 From the time when is risen the house-master. Later and he shuts the door, and ye begin outside to stand and to knock the door saying. Lord, open to us, and answering he will say to you: I know not you whence ye are. 26 Then ye will begin to say: We ate before thee and drank, and in the streets of us thou didst teach: 27 and he will say telling you: not I know

whence ye are: stand away from me all workers of unrighteousness. 28 There will be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth when ye see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but you being thrust out outside. 29 And they will come from east and west and from north and south, and will recline in the kingdom of God. 30 And behold there are last ones who will be first, and there are first ones who will be last. (Note: Literal translation of Revised Standard Version 1988)

2. . V . Rejection

13:31-35

some Pharisees

"c/f mother hen re Jerusalem"

13:31 In same the hour approached some Pharisees saying to him: Depart and go hence, because Herod wishes thee to kill. 32 And he said to them: Going tell fox this: Behold I expel demons and cures accomplish today and tomorrow, and on the third day I am perfected. Nevertheless it behoves me today and tomorrow and on the following day to journey, because it s not possible a prophet

to perish outside Jerusalem. 34 Jerusalem Jerusalem, the one killing the prophets and stoning the ones having been sent to her, how often I wished to gather the children of thee as a bird the of herself brood under her wings, and not ye wished. 35 Behold is left to you the house of you. And I tell you, by no means ye may see me until shall come the time when ye say: Blessed the one coming in the name of the Lord.

3. . V . Hierarchy

14:1-11

Lawyers & Pharisees

"chief places at table"

14:1 And it came to pass in the to go him into a house of one of the leaders of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, and they were carefully watching him. 2 And behold man a certain was dropsical, before him. 3 And answering Jesus spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees saying: Is it lawful on the Sabbath to heal or not? 4 And they were silent. And taking he cured him and dismissed. 5 And to them he said. Of whom of you a son or an ox into a pit shall fall and not immediately he will pull up it on a day of the Sabbath? 6. And they were not able to reply against these things. 7 And he said to the ones having been invited a parable, noting how the

chief seats they were choosing, saying to them 8 when thou art invited by anyone to wedding festivities, do not recline in the chief seat, lest a more honourable than thou he having been invited by him. 9. and coming the one thee and him inviting will say to thee: Give this man place, and then thou will begin with shame the last place to take. 10 But when thou art invited going recline in the last place, that when comes the one having invited thee he will say to thee: Friend, go up higher: then there will be to thee glory before all the ones reclining with thee. 11 Because everyone exalting himself will be humbled, and the one humbling himself will be exalted.

4. . V . Payment base

14:12-14

one inviting

"invite poor persons"

14:12 And he said also to the one having invited him: when thou makest a dinner or a supper, do not call the friends of thee nor the brothers of thee nor the relatives of thee nor neighbours rich, lest also they invite in return thee and it becomes a recompence to thee.13

But when a party thou makest, invite poor persons, maimed, lame, blind, 14 and blessed thou shalt be, because they have not to recompense thee; for it will be recompensed to thee in the resurrection of the just.

5. . V . Elitism

14:15-24

one reclining

"certain man a great supper"

14:15 hearing And one of the ones reclining with these things said to him: Blessed is he who shall eat bread in the kingdom of God. 16 And he said to him: A certain man made supper a great, and invited many, 17 and sent the slave of him at the hour of the supper to say to the ones having been invited: Come, because now prepared it is. 18 And they began from one mind all to beg off. The first said to him: A farm I bought, and I am obliged going out to set it; I ask thee, have me begged off. 19 and another said: yoke of oxen I bought five, and I am going to prove them; I ask thee, have

me begged off. 20 And another said: A wife I married, and therefore I cannot to come. 21 And coming up the slave reported to the lord of him these things. Then being angry the house-master told the slave of him: go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and the poor and maimed and blind and lame bring in here. 22 And said the slave: Lord has happened what thou didst command yet room there is. 23 And said the lord to the slave: Go out into the ways and hedges and compel to come in, that may be filled of me the house. 24 for I tell you that not one men of those having been invited shall taste of me the supper.

6. . V .Ideological foundations

14:25-35

Crowds, many

"lay foundation of house"

14:25 And came together to him crowds many, and turning he said to them: 26 If anyone comes to me and hates not the father of him and the mother and the wife and the children and the brothers and the sisters, and besides also the life of himself, he cannot to be of me a disciple. 27 Who bears not the cross of himself and comes after me, he cannot to be of me a disciple. 28 For who of you wishing a tower to build not first sitting counts the cost, if he has for completion? 29 Lest when laying him a foundation and not being able to finish all the ones seeing begin him to mock 30 saying. This man began to build and

was not able to finish. 31 Or what king going another king to attack in war not sitting first will deliberate if able he is with ten thousands to meet the one with twenty thousands coming upon him? 32 Otherwise, yet him afar being a delegation sending he asks the things for peace. 33 So therefore everyone of you who does not say farewell to all the of himself possessions cannot to be of me a disciple. 34 Good therefore the salt; but if even the salt becomes useless, with what will it be seasoned? 35 neither for soil nor for manure suitable is it; outside they cast it The one having ears to hear let him hear.

7. . V .Exclusion of difference

15:1-32

Pharisees & scribes

"hundred sheep / prodigal son

15:1 Now there were to him drawing near all the tax-collectors and the sinners to hear him. 2 And greatly murmured both the Pharisees and the scribes saying This man sinners receives and eats with them. 3 And he spoke to them parable this saying: 4 What man of you having a hundred sheep and losing of them one does not leave the ninety-nine in the desert and goes after the one having been lost until he finds it? 5 and finding places on it on the shoulders of him rejoicing. 6 and coming into the house he calls together the friends and the neighbours saying to them: Rejoice with me, because I found the sheep of me having been lost. 7 I tell you that thus joy in heaven will be over one sinner repenting than over nine-nine just men who no need have of repentance. 8. Or what woman drachmae having ten, if she loses drachma one, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and seek carefully until she finds? 9 and finding she calls together the friends and neighbours saying: Rejoice with me, because I found the drachma which I lost. 10 So I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner repenting. 11 And he said: A certain man had two sons. 12 And said the younger of them to the father: Father, give me the share of the

property falling to me. And he divided to them the living. 13 And after not many days having gathered all things the younger son departed to country afar, and there scattered the property of him living prodigally. 4 But having spent him all things there came famine a severe throughout country that, and he began to be in want. 15 And going he was joined to one of the citizens country of that, and he sent him into the fields of him to feed pigs. 16 and he longed to fill the stomach of him out of with the husks which ate the pigs, and no one gave to him. 17 to himself But coming he said: How many hired servants of the father of me abound of loaves but I with famine here am perishing. 18 rising up I will go to the father of me and I will say to him: Father I sinned against heaven and before thee, 19 no longer am I worthy to be called a son of thee: make me as one of the hired servants of thee. 20 and rising up he came to the father of himself. But yet him afar being away saw him the father of him and was moved with pity and running fell on the neck of him and fervently kissed him. 21 And said the son to him: Father, I sinned against heaven and before thee, no longer am I worthy to be

called a son of thee. 22 But said the father to the slaves of him: Quickly bring ye out a robe the first ad clothe him, and give a ring to the hand of him and sandals to the feet, 23 and bring the calf fattened kill, and eating let us be merry, 24 because this son of me dead was and lived again was having been lost and was found. And they began to be merry. 25 But was the son of him older in a field and as coming he drew near to the house, he heard music and dances. 26 and calling to him one of the lads he inquired what might be these things. 27 And he said to him. The brother of thee has come, and killed the father of thee the calf fattened, because being in health him he received back. 28. But he was angry and did not wish to enter; so the father of him coming out besought him. 29 But he answering said to the father: Behold so many years I serve thee and never a command of thee I transgressed, and to me never thou gavest a goat that with the friends of me I might be merry. 30 but when son of thee this having devoured of thee the living with harlots came, thou killest for him the fattened calf. 31 And he said to him: Child thou always with me art, and all things my thing are 32 to be merry And to rejoice it behoved us because brother of thee this dead was and came to life and having been lost also was found.

8. . V Over-absorption into system

16:1-13

Disciples

"render account, shrewd steward"

16:1 And he said also to the disciples: A certain man there was rich who had a steward, and this was complained of to him as wasting the possessions of him 2 And calling him he said to him: What is this, I hear about thee? render the account of the stewardship of thee; for thou canst not longer to be steward. 3 And said in himself the steward: What may I do, because the lord of me takes away the stewardship from me? to dig I am not able, to beg I am ashamed. 4 I knew what I may do, that when I am removed out of the stewardship they my receive me into the houses of themselves 5 And calling to him one each of the debtors of the lord of himself he said to the first: How much owest thou to the lord of me? 6 And he said: A hundred baths of oil. And he told him: Take of thee the letters bill and sitting quickly write fifty. 7 then to another he said: thou And how much owest? And he said: A

hundred cors of wheat. tells him. Take of thee the bill and write eighty. 8 And praised the lord the steward of unrighteousness because prudently he acted; because the sons age of this more prudent than the sons of the light in the generation of themselves are. 9 and I you tell, to yourselves make friends by the mammon of unrighteousness that when it fails they may receive you into the eternal tabernacles. 10 The man faithful in least also in much faithful is, and the man in least unrighteous also in much unrighteous is. 11 If therefore in the unrighteous mammon faithful not ye were, the true who to you will entrust? 12 And if in the thing belonging to another faithful not ye were that which is ours who will give you? 13 No household slave can two lords to serve; for either the one he will hate and the other he will love, or one he will hold fast to and the other he will despise. Ye cannot God to serve and mammon.

9. . V . Material obsession

11:14-31

Pharisees

"rich man and Lazarus"

11:14 Heard how these things all the Pharisees money lovers being and they scoffed at him. 15 And he said to them: Ye are the ones justifying yourselves before men, but God knows the hearts of you; because the thing among men lofty is an abomination before God. 16 The law and the prophets were until John: from then the kingdom of God is being preached and everyone into it is pressing. 7 But easier it is the heaven and the earth to pass away than of the law one little harn to fall. 18 Everyone dismission the wife of him and marrying another commits adultery and the one a woman having been dismissed from a husband marrying commits adulter. 19 Now a certain man was rich, and used to put on a purpose robe and fine linen being merry ever day splendidly. 20 and a certain poor man by name Lazarus

had been placed at the gate of him being covered with sores and 21 desiring to be satisfied from the things falling from the table of the rich man; but even the dogs coming licked the sores of him. 22 And it came to pass to die the poor man and to be carried away him by the angels into the bosom of Abraham; and died also the rich man and was buried. 23 And in hades lifting up the eyes of him, being in torments, he sees Abraham from afar and Lazarus in the bosoms of him. 24 And he calling said: Father Abraham, pity me and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of the finger of him of in water and may cool the tongue of me, because I am suffering in flame this. 25 But said Abraham; Child, remember that thou didst receive the good things of thee

in the life of thee, and Lazarus likewise the bad; but now here he is comforted, but thou art suffering. 26 And among all these things between us and you chasm a great has been firmly fixed, so that the ones wishing to pass hence to you cannot, neither thence to us may they cross over. 27 And he said: I ask thee therefore, father, that thou mayest send him to the house of the father of me: 28 for I have five brothers; so that he may witness to them, lest also they come to place this of torment. 29 But says Abraham; They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them. 30 But he said: No, father Abraham, but if someone from the dead should go to them, they will repent. 31 But he said to him: If Moses and the prophets they do not hear, neither if someone out of the dead should rise again will they be persuaded.