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- Walter Wink, ‘Neither Passivity nor Violence: Jesus’ Third
Way (Matt 5:38//Luke 6:29–30)’, in The Love of Enemy and Non-
Retaliation in the New Testament, ed. by Willard M. Swartley
(Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 1992), pp. 102–125 (p.111). - Matthew 5.44; Luke 6.27, 35; Romans 12.12–21. See William
Klassen, ‘The Authenticity of the Command : “Love Your Enemies”’,
in Authenticating the Words of Jesus, ed. by Bruce Chilton and Craig
A. Evans (Leiden: Brill, 1999), pp. 385–407. Such non-violent re-
sistance was a significant strand within first-century Judaism. See
Gordon Zerbe, Non-retaliation in Early Jewish and New Testament
Texts: Ethical Themes in Social Contexts (Sheffield: JSOT, 1993). For
examples, see Josephus, Antiquities 18:55–59, War 2.175–203. - In the case with the woman with the hemorrhage, in the ear-
liest rendering of this tradition, her healing comes about as a result
of her own decision and action not that of Jesus (Mark 5.29, Luke
8.44; cf. Matthew 9.22). In the case of the Syrophoencian woman it
is her arguments that convince a reluctant Jesus to heal her daugh-
ter (Matthew 15.21–28, Mark 7.24–30). See also Matthew 9.1–8,
Mark 2.1–12, Luke 5.17–26 ; Matthew 8.28–34, Mark 5.1–20, Luke
8.26–39. - See, for example, the command to “hate” families (Luke
14.26–27, cf. Matthew 10.37–39). See also Matthew 12.46–50,
Mark 3.31–35, Luke 8.19–21; Matthew 19.29; Mark 10.29, Luke
18.29b; Matthew 8.21–22, Luke 9.59–60. However, cf. Matthew
19.19, Mark 10.19, Luke 18.20; Matthew 15.4, Mark 7.10. - Fiorenza, In Memory of Her, p. 107. For a persuasive and import-
ant criticism of Fiorenza and similar attempts to present the Jesus as a
critic of patriarchy, see Kathleen E. Corley, Women and the Historical
Jesus: Feminist Myths of Christian Origins (Santa Rosa: Polebridge
Press, 2002). - Matthew 12.46–50, Mark 3.31–35, Luke 8.19–21; Matthew
19.19, Mark 10.30, Luke 18.30. - Luke 14.12.
- Matthew 5.42, Luke 6.30; Matthew 6.12–13, Luke 11.4;
Matthew 18.21–35; Luke 12.33; Matthew 19.21, Mark 10.21, Luke
18.22; Luke 14.33, Matthew 6.4, 20; Luke 6.34–35.