Jesus' "Beatitudes" were so far from proper rabbinical thinking they would have been heard, at least initially, as patently absurd. Not unlike something Groucho would gleefully espouse, and in a song??
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Jesus' Jokes
Audiences love comics who are good at one-liners. Jesus was good at one-liners. Like that "seventy times seven" one.
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