Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount referred to Lex talionis or a Jewish law which meant "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth." Jesus said instead we should instead "turn the other cheek" and forgive. Here is the text...
"'If anyone takes the life of a human being, he must be put to death. Anyone who takes the life of someone's animal must make restitution—life for life. If anyone injures his neighbor, whatever he has done must be done to him: fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. As he has injured the other, so he is to be injured. Whoever kills an animal must make restitution, but whoever kills a man must be put to death. You are to have the same law for the alien and the native-born. I am the LORD your God.' "
Which is more prevalent today? Jesus' "Sermon on the Mount" or Lex talionis?
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