Week 8

Outline:

Giving, Prayer, and Fasting (6:1-8, 16-18)

Care for the Poor in Judaism

Attitudes Toward the Poor

The Root of Pride (6:1)

The Audience of One (6:3-4)

Trumpeting Our Piety (6:2-3)

Pride, the Universal Temptation

Secret Prayer (6:5-6)

Prayer in Few Words (6:7)

Why Pray at All? (6:8)

Fasting (6:16-18)

Excursus 6. Verses on How God Looks at the Poor