Show me examples of Jesus showing tolerance?

Question

Can you show me from the Bible where Jesus taught, preached, or demonstrated tolerance. or examples where he taught against it? I am curious.

Was Jesus showing tolerance of prostitucion or was he showing that we are not under the law any more?
He did say GO AND SIN NO MORE.

Answer 1

Jesus never showed tolerance of sin. Instead, He showed grace to the repentent sinner.

The number one example of His "tolerance" seems to be the woman caught in the act of adultery at John 8:1-12 (she was not a prostitute, as some seem to think). Notice that Jesus is quoted at verse 11b as saying "go and sin no more." It's plain that Jesus labeled the woman a sinner, but He did it in a loving way -- the very thing that Christians are supposed to do, yet we are called "judgemental" when we do it! It's also plain that He instructed the woman to REPENT from her sin, because He told her to "sin NO MORE."

Are these the words of a person who tolerates sin? Absolutely not.

Another example is Jesus speaking with a Samaritan woman at the well (John 4:1-26). When He asked the woman to bring her husband to Him, she replied that she had no husband. Jesus responded by recognizing her honesty, but gently reminding her that she was an adulteress: 17 “You have well said, ‘I have no husband,’ 18 for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; in that you spoke truly.” The woman recognized that He spoke for God (verse 19), so it's implied that she realized that God Himself had reminded her of her sinful lifestyle. So here again, Jesus points out the sin to the sinner, which is considered "intolerant" by many today.

When a sinner's sin caused him or her to reach a point where repentence was unlikely, Jesus spoke with angry, condeming words. Consider what He said to the Pharisees, for example.

Answer 2

He made waves by spending time with tax collectors and "sinners", by touching the unclean, by healing a Roman soldier's servant (with whom the centurion may well, in view of the customs of the time, had sexual intercourse) and did not tell him either the "Four Spiritual Laws" or even comment on his life - instead, he said that this person's faith was more impressive than what he was finding in Israel (today he would have said 'in the Church'). When he called a Canaanite woman a "dog" and she nonetheless showed faith, he managed to learn from it and see his own prejudices and cast them aside, and he praised her for it. He healed (if one believes the reports - whether such illnesses and healings were psychosomatic is another issue) poor needy people who had nowhere else to turn. He showed kindness to the mentally ill, including people who were considered demon possessed. He sought out the marginalized, including those who because of eczema and other chronic skin diseases (that is what the Greek term usually translated into English as "leprosy" refers to) were forced to live outside of the villages and towns.

Are these enough examples? Do you want specific verses of can you use an online Bible and find them yourself?

Answer 3

Is not condemning but not condoning tolerance?

If so then here's an example... when the pharasies brought the woman they had caught 'in the act' of adultery to Jesus and wanted him to condemn her. (remember, adultery was punishable by stoning to death... both people involved were supposed to be killed). The man was no where to be seen, and Jesus told the people that whoever is without sin should cast the first stone. The crowd left silently. He asked the woman if anyone had condemned her and she said 'no'. He told her to go but to sin no more.

The crowd had wanted him to condemn her. He didn't. He didn't condone what she had done either because he told her not to do it anymore.

I'm not sure if that meets your idea of tolerance, but it does in a way to me.

Answer 4

See John 8:3-. the woman caught in adultery. The law called for death, but Jesus said that He didn't condemn her. And He told her not to sin any more.

Answer 5

How about when He was Hanging on the Cross, and Said "Father, Forgive them, they know Not What They DO!" He could have called TEN- THOUSAND ANGELS Or He could have Killed them all and theirs! All You Need to do Is Look in the Bible for "all" Red Letters>>this is Jesus Teaching and Preaching!!

Answer 6

John 3:17 God did not send his Son to condemn(law)
John 5:45 no accusation-all law law to anyone at all
John 8:3-11 no condemn(law), not even to adult-ery
Romans 4:15 where no law, there no transgression
Romans 5:13 when no law, no sin & death imputed
POINT: No law = No sin and death = No dead end

The GRACE of our Lord Jesus Christ with you all. Amen.

Answer 7

I always thought how he treated the Prostitute Mary - when everyone else put her down - was the best example of tolerance. The tale of the Samaritan was another - knowing how the Hebrew community looked down at the Samaritans as a people.

Further proof of the modern distortion of his message.

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Answer 8

Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. (prevented the woman from being stoned to death).

Don't judge or you will be judged.

The law was made for man, not man for the law.

The good samaritian.

His ministering and healing gentiles as well as Jews and all who came to him, even Roman soldiers who were considered his enemy.

His dying request that his father forgive them, because they don't know what they are doing.

His commandment that we love our enemies. (Ouch, this one is tough).

His restoring the severed ear of the soldier sent to capture him in Gasthemine.

His proclaiming that God IS Love.

Answer 9

Jesus had a lot of tolerance. Those men that beat and whipped him, for a crime he didn't commit. Not standing up for himself, to prove himself innocent. He got a worse punishment that the man that was crazy and he was set free. He never tried to prove his innocence.

Answer 10

His entire life and philosophy centered around tolerance (Love your enemy, Love your neighbor, turn the other cheek, treat others as you would want to be treated, etc, etc, etc).

The entire Christian gospel is based on tolerance. Unfortunately, most "mainstream" sects have twisted it into a very intolerant religion.