Commentary On Walter Wink's Analysis Of The Bible

After reading Walter Wink’s analysis, I discovered that the Bible contains many defenses and strategies that contest all of the injustices toward the poor and homeless. Within Wink’s excerpt, he targeted three core sayings that the evangelists Matthew and Luke employed in their Gospels, “turn the other cheek”, “give the undergarment”, and “go the second mile”. I have read and heard of all three of these sayings previously, but I never understood them the way that I understand them now. When I first read them, I just took them for their literal meanings and thought it was a way of passivity because Jesus was against any form of violence. I assumed that Jesus was promoting peace in the face of evil and that he was solely influencing the individual