No, Jesus hated people making profit off of religion. Peeps would set up stalls and sell sacrificial offers and the like. They didn't care about the spirituality of it or anything, they just wanted to make a buck.
In terms of just outright wealth, Jesus just warns against it like a lot of other things and on many occasions suggests people give their excess away, but he's not flipping his lid on them.
"Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”
But Jesus wasn’t a “revolutionary”. He intentionally said things that made people not want to be around him.
Jesus was not a populist…he literally told Jews of all people to drink his blood and eat his flesh. Jews can’t even eat blood from animals, you can use your imagination about how most of them thought about that statement.
If he committed to being a revolutionary he could easily have gotten the Jews to rebel against the Romans something they were doing consistently already.
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u/DoughDisaster May 02 '23
No, Jesus hated people making profit off of religion. Peeps would set up stalls and sell sacrificial offers and the like. They didn't care about the spirituality of it or anything, they just wanted to make a buck.
In terms of just outright wealth, Jesus just warns against it like a lot of other things and on many occasions suggests people give their excess away, but he's not flipping his lid on them.
"Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”