Has someone hurt your feelings? Have you been the bigger person and turned the other cheek? Where did that saying come from?
Turning the other cheek is a phrase in Christian doctrine from the Sermon on the Mount that refers to responding to injury without revenge and allowing more injury.
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This is another Psalm that shares prophecy on Jesus. In verse eleven, we read
False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not. Psalm 35:11.
This is fulfilled in Mark 14:57-59
And there arose certain, and bare false witness against him, saying, We heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and within three days I will build another made without hands.But neither so did their witness agree together.
Jesus was hated without a cause. Read Psalm 35:19 and John 15:25.
I am sure that the teaching of turning the other cheek is not a popular teaching today.
Another way of saying, take the high road. The Psalmist is pleading his cause.
Do you have a cause to fight for or to ask God to fight for you? Sometimes turning the other cheek is all we can do.
Jesus finally answers the priest in Mark 14, I am He. A simple answer to a profound question.
Father God, let there be peace in the world and let it begin with me.
Who is God asking you to forgive?
