Did he teach resistance to wrong?
“Unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other” (Luke vi, 29).
“He who courts oppression shares the crime.”
Lord Amberley, referring to this teaching of Jesus, says: “A doctrine more convenient for the purposes of tyrants and malefactors of every description it would be difficult to invent” (Analysis of Religious Belief, p. 355).