[Red Badger]

Sell your cloak and buy a sword.......................

[MeganC]

Exactly! Jesus didn’t tell his disciples to arm themselves with military style assault weapons (that’s what swords were at the time) just because they looked nice.

[Mrs. Don-o]

They said "Here are two swords" and He said, "Enough."

Two swords for 12 men?

Enough for what?

Enough for them to symbolically be classified as criminals, transgressors, it seems.

Read through the whole passage and you'll see what I mean.

Luke 22:35-38

Then Jesus asked them, “When I sent you without purse, bag or sandals, did you lack anything?” “Nothing,” they answered.

He said to them, "But now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you don’t have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one. For it is written: ‘he was numbered with the transgressors’; and I tell you that this must be fulfilled in me. Yes, what is written about me is reaching its fulfillment."

The disciples said, "See, Lord, here are two swords."

"That is enough," he replied.

The disciples did not understand this, and as Jesus was being arrested, Peter attempted to defend him by reaching for one of the swords, and striking the servant of the High Priest, cutting off his ear. Jesus miraculously healed the wound, and then rebuked Peter:

Matthew 26:52-53: "Put your sword back in its place… for all who take the sword will die by the sword. Do you think I cannot call on my Father, and he will provide me with more than twelve legions of angels?"

I'm not arguing for Ivory Snow, 99 44/100% pacifism here, and I don't think Jesus is, either. But I am supplying necessary context.

[petro45acp]

“Sell your cloak and buy a sword.......................”

What he said!

KYPD

[Elsie]

I shudda read ahead.