Why Was Jesus Treated as a Beggar?

The response of the hypocritical scribes and Pharisees was clear.

They did not refute Jesus' interpretation on scholarly grounds.

This was not because Jesus' interpretation was wrong, but because that interpretation shook, at its very foundations, the "power structure of biblical interpretation" that they had built over a long period of time.

The moment the center of biblical interpretation shifted, the system they had maintained could no longer remain absolute.

As a result, Jesus ceased to be merely a subject of debate and instead became "someone who had to be disregarded," which in turn led to his social devaluation.

The reason Jesus was treated like a beggar was not that he was actually poor.

• He had to be made to appear that way.

The image of having no possessions, wandering from place to place, and coming from a peripheral region was not simply a set of life circumstances that arose naturally.

Rather, it was "the most effective method of control" chosen by "those who had lost their authority over interpretation."

When the Truth itself could not be refuted, the fastest solution was to "lower the social position of the one who spoke that Truth."

The hypocrites claimed to act according to Scripture, but in reality, they made Scripture function only "within the system they themselves had built."

• That system monopolized biblical interpretation,
• managed the Truth,
• and was structured so that even the flow of biblical research could be absorbed into the system itself.

Within this structure, Jesus' interpretation inevitably became "dangerous," and ultimately, he had to be fixed in society as "a person of no social value."

In conclusion, in an era when only the Old Testament existed, he was a Bible researcher who, through research, revealed how Scripture operates.

He came as written in Scripture and was a person who interpreted figuratively (prophetically) the direction to which Scripture bore witness.

The social devaluation he experienced was not a matter of his personal life or social status, but the result of "a collision between power and Truth" surrounding biblical interpretation.

This was one scene in which Scripture was put to the test in an era when only the Old Testament existed.

At the same time, this is the key to explaining why Jesus inevitably had to be treated like a beggar.