Jesus flatly contradicted other Qumran belief in His Sermon on the Mount: They heard it was said: "You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy. But I tell you: Love your enemies, bless those who curse you , do good to those who hate you and pray for they revile and persecute them "(Matthew 5:43-44). Hate is a spiritual enemy, however, is precisely what the Rule of the Community supports when he says," Love all that he [God] has chosen and hate all that he deprecated. "12 It is clear that some aspects of the doctrine of Jesus was a deliberate refutation of the teachings by way of the Essenes.
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