text: Interesting observations, Stephen. I don't think you can attach the same significance to Jesus refusal to be pressured into fulfilling the deep-seated social justice aspirations and messianic expectations of 1st Century Jews that you attach to the fact that He didn't have children. He sure had plenty of affirmation for children. Why no endorsement of, or even reference to, the social justice activists and protesters? 
  
  The dog that didn't bark isn't always significant. But sometimes it is. 
  
  I agree that God inspired the entirety of Scripture. Does that mean we should have a theocracy? Should we have the death penalty? OT prophets condemned exploitation, dishonesty and disrespect for personal property and personal autonomy. We moderns all agree that what they condemned is immoral and illegal. OT prophets were not egalitarians. They would have drooled to have our rule of law. Christian social justice advocates engage in OT eisegesis in order to rewrite the gospel mandate.