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York: Women’s Division, General Board of Global Ministries, United Methodist Church; Gooch, John O. 2006. John Wesley for the 21st Century , 45, 78-84. Nashville: Discipleship Resources. 3 κηρύξαι αἰχμαλώτοις ἄφεσιν. Except as noted, quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible (Christianity), the Jewish Publication Society translation of the Tanakh (Judaism), and the HarperOne The Study Quran translation of the Quran (Islam); quotations from the Greek New Testament are from 2012. Novum Testamentum Graece (28th ed.) (“NT28”) , ed. Barbara and Kurt Aland, et al. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibel Gesellschaft. 4 Barclay, William. 1975. The Gospel of Matthew, Daily Study Bible Series (rev. ed.) , 325. Philadelphia: The Westminster Press. 5 Danker, Frederick William. 2001. συνδέω and κοινωνός in Greek - English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature (3rd ed.) (“BDAG”) . Chicago: University of Chicago Press; Mitchell, Alan C. 2007. Hebrews, Sacra Pagina , 293. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press; Johnson, Luke Timothy. 2006. Hebrews, New Testament Library , 270. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press. 6 Chrysostom, John, Homily 79 on Matthew. Available at https://www.newadvent.org/ fathers/200179.htm. See also Justin. The First Apology, Ch. 67 (Weekly worship of the Christians). Available at https://www.newadvent. org/fathers/0126.htm. 7 Barclay, William. 1975. The Gospel of Matthew, Daily Study Bible Series (rev. ed.) , 325. Philadelphia: The Westminster Press. See also Davies, W.D., and D.C. Allison. 2004. Matthew 19-28, International Critical Commentary , 427. London: Bloomsbury. 8 Chapters 40-66 of Isaiah comprise Second Isaiah, though sometimes chapters 56-66 are further broken out as Third Isaiah. See Alter, Robert. 2019. The Hebrew Bible, Prophets , 617-618. New York: W.W. Norton & Co. The servant has been variously identified as the prophet, the Messiah, or even Israel itself. See Sommer, Benjamin D. 2004. Notes on Isaiah. In The Jewish Study Bible (Jewish Publication Society Translation) , ed. Adele Berlin and Marc Zvi Brettler, 890-892. New York: Oxford

72, 89, 186. New York: Central Conference of American Rabbis. 14 See also Fiqh-us-Sunnah Volume 003, Zakaat and Fasting, Fiqh 3.073A and 3.103A. The Hadith may be found in English at http://hadithcollection. com/. 15 Lumbard, Joseph E.B. 2015. Notes on Surah 76. In The Study Quran , ed. Seyyed Hossein Nasr, 1453. New York: HarperOne. 16 Sahih Bukhari 5058. 17 Mu’jam Al-Babeer 18444. 18 Musnad Ahmad 32. 19 Nasr, Seyyed Hossein. 2003. Islam: Religion, History, and Civilization , 91. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco. 20 Dakake, Maria Massi. 2015. Quranic Ethics, Human Rights, and Society. In The Study Quran , ed. Seyyed Hossein Nasr, 1799 (footnote omitted). New York: HarperOne. 21 Mohamed, Furqan. May 19, 2020. Mini Reminders: Rethinking the Importance of What Zakat Can Look Like. Amaliah . Available at https://www.amaliah.com/post/59258/mini- reminders-rethinking-importance-zakat-can- look-like. 22 See Islamic Information Portal. Feb. 26, 2013. Golden Rule in Islam. Available at http://islam.ru/ 24 Sharh Arba’een An-Nawawi, Hadith Number 13. 25 Sunan At-Tirmidhi, Book of Asceticism, Number 2305, Sahih. 26 Musnad Ahmad, Number 6768, Sahih. 27 Wesley, John. 1986. On Visiting the Sick, Sermon 98 (1786). In The Works of John Wesley, vol. III , ed. Albert C. Outler, 386 (footnote omitted). Nashville: Abingdon Press. Available at https://www.biblesnet.com/john-wesley-on- visiting-the-sick.pdf. en/content/story/golden-rule-islam. 23 Sahih Muslim, Book 1, Number 72.

Finally, the Golden Rule appears throughout the Hadith. 22 “ None of you has faith until he loves for his brother or his neighbor what he loves for himself.” 23 Of this teaching it has been said that “[i]t is better to interpret this as brotherhood in general, such that it includes the disbeliever and the Muslim.” 24 Accordingly, “[b] e kind to your neighbor and you will be a be- liever; love for the people what you love for yourself and you will be a Muslim.” 25 Indeed, “[w] hoever would love to be delivered from the Hellfire and entered into Paradise, then let him die with faith in Allah and the Last Day, and let him treat the people the way he would love to be treated.” 26 How then can we not reach out to those in prison? Conclusion The Abrahamic commands brook no dissent: we must attend to those in prison. In particular, we must treat them as we, if prisoners, would wish to be treated. After all, as John Wesley preached in Sermon 98, “Suppose this representation be true, suppose the Judge of all the earth speaks right, those and those only, that ... visit those that are in prison, according to their power and oppor- tunity, shall ‘inherit the everlasting kingdom.’And those that do not shall ‘depart into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels.’” 27 Suppose. A good question. Endnotes 1 Wesley, John. 1739. Preface. In Hymns and Sacred Poems , viii. London: William Strahan. Available at https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/ecco/ 004800840.0001.000/1:2?rgn=div1;view=fulltext. 2 See Yrigoyen, Jr., Charles. 1996. John Wesley: Holiness of Heart and Life , 24-26, 48-49. New

Mark Davies is an M.Div. student at Union Theological Seminary in New York City, doing a unit of clinical pastoral education visiting incarcerated women at Bedford Hills Correction

University Press. 9 Pirke Avot 1:2. 10 See Sanh. 103b; Ned. 40a.

11 Eisenberg, Ronald L. 2004. The JPS Guide to Jewish Traditions , 621, citing Avot of Rabbi Natan 31. 12 Sabbath 31a. In Babylonian Talmud . Available at http://www.come-and-hear.com/shabbath/ shabbath_31.html. 13 Central Conference of American Rabbis. 1975. Gates of Prayer: The New Union Prayerbook ,

Facility and interning for his field education at Interfaith Prison Partnership. He is also a retired attorney, retired law professor, and retired from 22 years of service as executive director of New York City’s ethics board.

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