Matthew 5:38-42
An Eye for an Eye
38"You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.' 39But I tell you, Do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. 40And if someone wants to sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well. 41If someone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles. 42Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.
Jesus is nonviolent...He tells us in Luke, if someone slaps you on one cheek, turn to them the other also...If someone takes your coat, do not withhold your shirt from them...Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back...He tells us to do to others as you would have them do to you...
In Matthew Jesus says something very similar, "You have heard that it was said, ‘Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.’...But I tell you, do not resist an evil person...If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also...And if anyone wants to sue you and take your shirt, hand over your coat as well...If anyone forces you to go one mile, go with them two miles...Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you."...
After all Jesus teachings on nonviolence, He was tortured, flogged, and then taken to a cross to be hung till He was dead...Jesus was the recipient of violence and thus died for His beliefs and teachings...He did nothing wrong...Jesus had the faith that it was better to be the recipient of pain than to be the One to give others pain...
Dr. Martin Luther King, Junior said this about nonviolence as he marched for civil rights, “To believe in nonviolence does not mean that violence will not be inflicted upon you...The believer in nonviolence is the person who will willingly allow himself to be the victim of violence but will never inflict violence upon another.”...Dr. King adds, “True nonviolent resistance is not unrealistic submission to evil power...It is rather a courageous confrontation of evil by the power of love, in the faith that it is better to be the recipient of violence than the inflicter of it, since the latter only multiplies the existence of violence and bitterness in the universe, while the former may develop a sense of shame in the opponent, and thereby bring about a transformation and change of heart.”...