Do Matthew 10:14 and Luke 22:36 contradict the Sermon of the Mount?

[minichibi]

Matthew

10:14 “If any household or town refuses to welcome you or listen to your message, shake its dust from your feet as you leave.”

Luke

22:35. When I sent you without purse and scrip and shoes, did you want anything?

22:36. But they said: Nothing. Then said he unto them: But now he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise a scrip: and he that hath not, let him sell his coat and buy a sword.

22:37. For I say to you that this that is written must yet be fulfilled in me. And with the wicked was he reckoned. For the things concerning me have an end.

22:38. But they said: Lord, behold, here are two swords. And he said to them: It is enough.

 

[thistle]

Matthew

10:14 “If any household or town refuses to welcome you or listen to your message, shake its dust from your feet as you leave.”

Luke

22:35. When I sent you without purse and scrip and shoes, did you want anything?

22:36. But they said: Nothing. Then said he unto them: But now he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise a scrip: and he that hath not, let him sell his coat and buy a sword.

22:37. For I say to you that this that is written must yet be fulfilled in me. And with the wicked was he reckoned. For the things concerning me have an end.

22:38. But they said: Lord, behold, here are two swords. And he said to them: It is enough.

Why do you think they contradict the sermon on the mount?

 

[patrick457]

Why do you think they contradict the sermon on the mount?

Seconded. Why do you, minichibi, think these two passages go against what Jesus said in other instances (whether on a mountain or on a plain or someplace else doesn’t matter)? Can you give us citations?

 

[StrawberryJam]

Matthew

10:14 “If any household or town refuses to welcome you or listen to your message, shake its dust from your feet as you leave.”

Luke

22:35. When I sent you without purse and scrip and shoes, did you want anything?

22:36. But they said: Nothing. Then said he unto them: But now he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise a scrip: and he that hath not, let him sell his coat and buy a sword.

22:37. For I say to you that this that is written must yet be fulfilled in me. And with the wicked was he reckoned. For the things concerning me have an end.

22:38. But they said: Lord, behold, here are two swords. And he said to them: It is enough.

I guess you will be fasting then?

 

[George_Stegmeir]

One can nit pick bits an pieces of Scripture to contradict or justify almost anything. Jehovah’s Witnesses and Fundamentalists do it all the time.
That doesn’t make any of it true…and in the eyes of some, nit picking Scripture borders on sacriledge.

 

[TimothyH]

Matthew

10:14 “If any household or town refuses to welcome you or listen to your message, shake its dust from your feet as you leave.”

Luke

22:35. When I sent you without purse and scrip and shoes, did you want anything?

22:36. But they said: Nothing. Then said he unto them: But now he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise a scrip: and he that hath not, let him sell his coat and buy a sword.

22:37. For I say to you that this that is written must yet be fulfilled in me. And with the wicked was he reckoned. For the things concerning me have an end.

22:38. But they said: Lord, behold, here are two swords. And he said to them: It is enough.

The literal sense of the swords is a sharp piece of metal used for protection or as a weapon to overcome an adversary. But the Bible is a very spiritual book, full of allegory and symbolism. There are spiritual senses of scripture based on the literal sense.

The spiritual sense of the sword’s might be the sharp edged word of God, the Gospel preached by Jesus Christ.

*And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. (Ephesians 6:17)

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and spirit, of joints and marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. (Hebrews 4:12)

**From his mouth issues a sharp sword *with which to smite the nations, (Revelation 19:15)
I noticed that Peter cut of the ear of the slave of the high priest. You can’t hear the word of God without ears.

When I think of the two swords in Luke 22, I think of the Old Testament and New Testament - two sharp edged swords of God’s word.

-Tim-

 

[StrawberryJam]

One can nit pick bits an pieces of Scripture to contradict or justify almost anything. Jehovah’s Witnesses and Fundamentalists do it all the time.
That doesn’t make any of it true…and in the eyes of some, nit picking Scripture borders on sacriledge.

Scripture is what it is.
If we have to fear “nit pick” bits and pieces of it, then we are surely in trouble.
Where is the confidence in your belief?

 

[George_Stegmeir]

Scripture is what it is.
If we have to fear “nit pick” bits and pieces of it, then we are surely in trouble.
Where is the confidence in your belief?

Not to get into a prolonged discussion or argument, but I learned long ago, from Jesuit teachers that we, as Catholics, have to view scripture as a whole and not disect it a sentance at a time. Doing that can result not only in heresy but in abberations-such as snake handling and the like.

 

[StrawberryJam]

Not to get into a prolonged discussion or argument, but I learned long ago, from Jesuit teachers that we, as Catholics, have to view scripture as a whole and not disect it a sentance at a time. Doing that can result not only in heresy but in abberations-such as snake handling and the like.

Jesuits are the teachers and I do respect thier knowledge.
I also expect that they have understood that the educated public is no longer threatened by them.

They can be easily exposed, as any other as pretending to have knowledge they do not have. In the old days, their word was golden.