The Jewish scholar Joseph Klausner, for example, holds that the Pharisees and Sadducees were justified in their attacks on Jesus because he imperiled Jewish culture at its foundations, and that by ignoring everything that belongs to wholesome social life he undercut the work
of centuries.2 Others within the Christian tradition have felt
considerable uneasiness lest the words
of Jesus about nonresistance imperil the civil power
of the
State, or his words about having no
anxiety for food or drink or other material possessions curtail an economic motivation essential to society.