Jesus so often took the side of the downtrodden. This is important. Think of some of the people with whom we find him in conversation - Zacchaeus the hated tax-collector, the Samaritan woman at the well, blind Bartimaeus, and so on. None of these would be regarded as very suitable companions by respectable society. But aslso look how he champions the rights and position of the downtrodden. He refuses to condemn the woman caught in adultery. He forgives the sin of the paralysed man whose friends got him to Jesus through the roof. He points to a child as the example of how to follow God's way.
Isn't it true that there is a very real challenge for us here as to how to live? Whose rights are you championing? Who really matters to you? Who should?
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