{"id":8997,"date":"2017-04-03T14:07:14","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T14:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=8997"},"modified":"2017-04-03T14:07:14","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T14:07:14","slug":"mathew-712","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/8997\/mathew-712\/","title":{"rendered":"Mathew 7:12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">&#8220;Whatever\u00a0<i>y<\/i>ou want that men should do to\u00a0<i>y<\/i>you, do likewise to them, for this is the law and the prophets.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Is this verse saying that you should treat people the way you want to be treated because this is what the law &amp; prophets teach? \u00a0Seems like it, but I can&#8217;t figure out how it fits with the verses before and after. Am I missing anything?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u00a0te<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u00a0========<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Hi Token!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>You are not missing anything. \u00a0There is no specific connection between this verse and the surrounding ones. \u00a0If you will notice, Jesus speaks randomly about various subjects throughout the Sermon on the Mount.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>And yes, you are seeing rightly Jesus&#8217; point in this verse.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Dad<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Whatever\u00a0you want that men should do to\u00a0yyou, do likewise to them, for this is the law and the prophets.&#8221; Is this verse saying that you should treat people the way you want to be treated because this is what the law &amp; prophets teach? \u00a0Seems like it, but I can&#8217;t figure out how it fits [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8997"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}