Matthew 5:17, from the Gospel of Matthew, is the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount, considered the central teaching of Jesus. A faith leader in Washington, D.C., shared perspective.

Jesus’ answer is disarming to the Pharisee who asked, “Teacher, which is the most important commandment in the law of Moses?” The Pharisee, like Landry, clearly assumed that, “If you want ...

Jesus fulfilled the deeper purpose of the Law—to restore the broken and to bring people back to community with God and each other. 4. Jesus and Mercy: A Different Interpretation of Punishment ...

Camaraderie . Jesus also links friendship to the knowledge of his law. He says, “I no longer call you slaves, because a slave does not know what his master is doing.

This Law was meant for Jesus Who was both fully God and fully human. We therefore say He came to fulfil the Law. We read Matthew 5:17, “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the ...

What is purpose of invoking Jesus in a letter to the editor, as was done in the March 15 letter “Some sins are not forgivable” and the March 12 letter “Jesus would not approve of GOP”?

To understand how the Roman authorities would have treated a dissident like Jesus, Andrade turned to a historical account of a trial that took place some 30 years after Jesus would have been executed.

This Law was meant for Jesus Who was both fully God and fully human. We therefore say He came to fulfil the Law.

A detail from “Christ before Pilate,” by Mihály Munkácsy (1881). Based on John 18 and 19 and Luke 23, it depicts Jesus standing between his accusers and a hesitant Roman governor Pontius Pilate.