He produced outrageous inversions of normality – ‘Leave the dead to bury their own dead,’ Jesus said to a man who wanted to postpone becoming his disciple in order to see to his father’s funeral.40 This saying is clearly authentic, since Gospel writers felt bound to preserve it even though it outrages every pious norm of the ancient world and a universal human instinct moreover, Christianity has stonily ignored the command throughout its subsequent history.
“He shocked or excited them with irreverent comments on authority so he caricatured rival religious teachers ‘straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel’.
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