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.