Charles

The same Bible you are using to claim he was "super poor in material things" and couldn't "afford" a slave is the exact same text that shows him possessing infinite capital. Look at how he recruited his first disciples. He supernaturally filled their nets to the breaking point after they had caught absolutely nothing all night. If it were anyone else, they would have looked at that massive haul and said, "Let's start a monopoly. I have the labor, you have the magic, we're going to be rich." Instead, Jesus walks away from the biggest catch of their lives and says, "Come, follow me, and I will make you fishers of men." After he fed the 5,000, the crowds relentlessly tracked him down because they wanted him to do it again. He held the ultimate economic monopoly: conjuring food out of thin air. The masses were in such a frenzy that they literally tried to seize him and install him as an earthly ruler. John 6:15 explicitly records this: "Jesus, knowing that they intended to come and make him king by force, withdrew again to a mountain by himself." How completely deranged is it to look at a man who could command nature, bypass human economics, and actively reject a forced coronation, and conclude he just didn't have the cash for a slave? 😂 His poverty wasn't a bank account issue, it was a sovereign, deliberate rejection of the greed and subjugation that defines ordinary men.