You have heard that it was said... [Epiphany 6A - Matthew 5:21-37]
The Rev. Jeremiah Williamson Matthew 5:21-37 You have heard that it was said… You know, you read these teachings of Jesus, and honestly, it kinda makes sense that people turned on him. I suspect he was easy enough to love, if you were one of those people who wasn’t used to being loved, but for most of the curious people in his burgeoning crowds, Jesus was probably not quite so easy to like. I mean, you come for a free healing and he tells you to saw off your hand. Jesus never made things easy. In fact, he just always makes everything harder; he raises the bar to these impossible heights. In today’s Gospel, an excerpt from the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus does just that. Probably the people in his audience were feeling pretty good about themselves – before Jesus started talking. They were good, Law-abiding citizens; they took the Ten Commandments seriously. People got under their skin, but they didn’t murder them....