I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.6 The King goes on to explain to the goats the beef he has with them: they did not do these things. This is revolutionary: Jesus says how we treat “the least of these” is how we treat him. When a dictator tortures his people, he tortures the Son of God. When a CEO exploits her overseas workers, she exploits the earth’s rightful King. When the priest raped Jeremiah, he was raping Jesus—the Judge of the world. Jesus confronts the brutality of history by identifying with the vulnerable,
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