The New Testament: a new translation

Hart wants to finally make people believe that Jesus told his followers to give up all their belongings (Luke 18:22), make no provision for the morrow (Matt. 6.25-34), yield to harsh treatment or demands (Matt. 5:39-48), and hate their family (Luke 14:26):  "Far from teaching 'family values', Christ was remarkably dismissive of the family."  According to Hart, the first Christians would repel us today; we would mock them as 'extremists' and fanatics.  But those messages are already there in earlier translations.  We have failed to recognize them not because of faulty translation but because of our own evasion of what the words mean, no matter how they are translated..." - Garry Wills NYRB 'A Wild and Indecent Book'; Feb. 8, 2018.  Held in Literature