Buscai em primeiro lugar a justiça de Deus : Mt 6,33

Abstract

This thesis entitled "Seek first the justice of God: Mt 6.33" addresses the theme of justice in the Matean gospel, which consists of the articulation of the social practices taught in the Sermon on the Mount. The practices of justice / righteousness taught by Jesus aimed to mitigate the sufferings of people who lived on the margins of society as well as to minimize the differences among them. The justice of the Matthew Gospel builds social equality (symmetry). Therefore, it was opposed to the modus operandi of the internal and external domination suffered by Palestine of the first Christian century which built and fostered inequalities in society. However, in the Gospel of Matthew there are indications that justice was not being practiced by the members of Mathew's community. The general objective of the research is to demonstrate that the praxis of justice / righteousness taught by Jesus, in the Sermon on the Mount, transforms the community for equality, solidarity, sharing, mercy, etc. In this understanding, it will be demonstrated that materialism is a consequence of the absence of justice. The research is based on the proposition that "The justice of the Gospel of Matthew 6.33 is merciful. It refutes unfair social practices and guides the community towards equality, sharing, solidarity and concern for the little ones". For the investigation of the hypothesis in the first chapter, an exegesis of the pericope Mt 6.25-34 is made from the historical-critical method with which it is evident that there was a lack of the practices of the justice of God in almost all segments of society, including in Mathew's community. In the second chapter through the bibliographic review, the contexts of the text Mt 6.33 are combined from the perspective that the current asymmetries in Palestinian society in the first century of the common era were consequences of the lack of justice. It was concluded that justice in the perspective of the biblical narrative is the elimination of inequalities among women, men and children. It is not an ideological perception, but rather the articulation of merciful practices