Jesus says clearly
at the end of the world, we’re
going be asked …
Jesus says very clearly at the end of the world, we’re going to be asked, you know, how did you receive the foreigner? Did you receive him and welcome him or not? And I think that there’s a deep reflection that needs to be made in terms of what’s happening.
Pope Leo XIV as quoted in Pope calls for ‘deep reflection’ in US about migrants’ treatment under Trump By Yesim Dikmen November 4, 2025.
In the Book of Matthew, Chapter 25, we read:
“When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.
“Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’
“Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’
“The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’
“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’
“They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’ “He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’
No one who reads these posts can be unaware that I accept the Bible as the inspired Word of God.
By that I mean, while people on earth wrote the words down, the words themselves came from God.
With that in mind, I join the long line of folks who accept God as one of the greatest writers ever.
Consider that we can show these manuscripts are 1,000s of years old and have been translated and re translated over and over again and still the impact of the WORDS and the sentence structure and the plot and the narrative that comes through in this short passage in Americanized English, is truly amazing as writing.
The power of the words and the story survives and comes through.
You can see a Stephen King plot where someone is in court and defiantly says to a Judge, “when did I see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?“
And the Judge hits the gavel and says quietly, “Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.”
The echoes of this simple sentence reverberate down to the basement of any library.
If you read this in the King James English, its line out of Shakespeare.
I was a stranger,
and ye took me not in:
naked,
and ye clothed me not:
sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
That being said, how can folks who live by this book not see the point here?
But who am I to point that out.
I understand those other verses too.
I am not without sin and cannot throw any stones.
I got a log in my eye and shouldn’t point out the sliver in the eyes of other people.
Maybe this is where the author was going when in the Book of Philippians, Chapter 2, he wrote, “continue to work out your salvation …with fear and trembling”.
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