It is often mistakenly held that the key concept of Jesus' ethic is the "Golden Rule": "do unto others as you would have them do unto you." This is stated by Jesus, however, not as the sum of his own teaching but as the center of the law (Mark 12:28-29, Matt. 22:40, citing Lev. 19:15). But Jesus' own "fulfillment" of this thrust of the law, which thereby becomes through his own work a "new commandment" (John 13:34, 15:12, 1 John 2:18) is different, "Do as I have done to you" or "do as the Father did in sending his Son."


p. 119 - The Politics of Jesus (1972)

John Howard Yoder Quotes

It is often mistakenly held that the key concept of Jesus' ethic is the Golden Rule: do unto others as you would have them do unto you. This is...

It is often mistakenly held that the key concept of Jesus' ethic is the Golden Rule: do unto others as you would have them do unto you. This is...

It is often mistakenly held that the key concept of Jesus' ethic is the Golden Rule: do unto others as you would have them do unto you. This is...

It is often mistakenly held that the key concept of Jesus' ethic is the Golden Rule: do unto others as you would have them do unto you. This is...