This is Jesus speaking to the apostles. He is talking about the Pharisees and scribes (and I think the Sadducees as well).
Matthew 23:23(NKJV)
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith. These you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone.
Justice and Mercy and Faith
What exactly do
those three words mean and why did Jesus link these three words together? What is the interplay between these three
words?
For example, for a justice system to be just it has to be able to grant mercy
when the circumstances warrant it; otherwise it isn't truly just. But where does faith fit in here?
Let's start by getting the dictionary
definitions of these three words.
So what say ye? What message is Jesus sending by using these three words in combination?
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