

I was also thinking that followers must have been super poor. Since massage of give up everything and you’ll be rewarded would resonated to literal beggars or people who had nothing. Comes off as high yield return for the poor


He was since money and clothes are included in everything
Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide yourselves with purses that will not wear out, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.
Jesus being more explicit to his disciples about selling everything.
Like these are explicit things Jesus is requiring people to do. It’s not a metaphor to hate your family and your own life. Your actually supposed to do it.


If I learned I would forget over time


Well robberies are very rare. No one says they they thwarted a mugging last week, plus really dangerous places are like a few blocks big, so you could just walk or drive around the worst of the worst.
If you robbed in your house, I’d just say lock whatever door your in and call the cops, robberies tend to be quick so they’ll go after what’s easy.
If you’re mugged is suggest looking your mugger in the face, talking casually, or comply with their demands.
That’s cool, but you’re still commanded to hate in the biblical sense by jesus what you changes but you still have to do it.
You can look at Jesus telling you to both sell and/or give up everything as a test, but you still gotta do it. Like you can say a litteral test to get a certificate is there to test your aptitude but you still gotta pass the test.
I also had a revelation that ownership is a time/culture dependant and God’s deciding after people been owning things for thousands of years at that point to say “give up everything”