7:11
Jesus continues with this theme. Notice the casual “you who are evil”. Jesus was under no illusion as to our true state! Yet even we demonstrate a high level of love and care. So if we who are evil can do that, how much more will our truly and wholly good Father do the same. God gives good gifts to His children.
7:12
“So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the prophets.” This is the so-called Golden Rule, and Jesus is probably using it to sum up everything He says in the Sermon on the Mount that refers to our attitudes and actions towards others. He has given several specific instructions or guidelines, but it is impossible to cover every specific situation (though the Rabbis had tried, which is why they had such an enormous number of rules). We need a guiding principle, and this is that guiding principle.
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