Luke 6:29 Meaning and Explanation
“And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other; and him that taketh away thy cloak forbid not to take thy coat also.”
King James Version (KJV)
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Read Full Chapter →Struck on one cheek, offer the other; if someone takes your cloak, do not withhold your coat.
What Does Luke 6:29 Mean?
Jesus gives enemy-love its most vivid pictures: a blow on the cheek answered with the other cheek; a cloak seized, and the coat — the inner garment — offered as well. The slap he describes is an insult as much as an assault, and the loss of a cloak was the kind of loss the poor knew well.
The disciple is freed from the old spiral of strike and strike back. This is not weakness but mastery: the person who can absorb an insult without retaliating has broken its power. Jesus himself, struck and stripped of his garments, lived this word to the end — and won, not lost, by it.
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What does Luke 6:29 mean?
Struck on one cheek, offer the other; if someone takes your cloak, do not withhold your coat.