Oh really?

This was posted on the Pinterest board for my class. I don't think Jesus would say that. Let's look at some things Jesus did say to people in the New Testament:

Matthew 9:9-13
“As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector’s booth. “Follow me.” He told him, and Matthew got up and followed him. While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and sinners came and ate with him and his disciples. When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?” On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a physician, but the sick. But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

Matthew 7:1-5
“Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye?  You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.


These are the words from Jesus. He calls the sinners, not the people who think they are great people. Jesus wants the people who know they are broken, and because of that, they know they need Jesus. He tells us not to judge others when we too are sinners. I am a broken sinner who is in need of a savior. It is hard to admit that, because in our world that is frowned upon. No one is supposed to admit their flaws, well that is not what Jesus says. We can't judge others when we are just as sinful.