It doesn't mean exactly what you think it means, because the context has been stripped. >But I tell you not to resist an evil person. But whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also. So the big point here is **right** cheek. That means someone backhanded you. You square your shoulders to them and say, "no, slap me like a man." A backhand is about the insult, not the hit. > If anyone wants to sue you and take away your tunic, let him have your cloak also. You had legal rights to your cloak. It kept you alive and it was your bed. In 1st century Judea, a debtor could take your tunic and that was that. If he took your cloak, though, you had the right to get it back each night to sleep in. Jesus is saying, "make him look you in the eye, every night, and had that tunic back to you, night after night, and make you hand it back to him, morning after morning." > And whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two. This is about Roman soldiers. When Roman soldiers were on the march, if they saw someone on the side of the road, they could make them carry their pack for exactly one mile. Jesus is saying, if a solders makes you carry his pack for a mile, carry it for two. It's about human nature. He thinks he has a right to that first mile, but he'll start feeling like a shithead when you keep going and won't give his pack back. It's about not letting people treat you like shit. You don't fight back directly (they killed people for that then) but by being a shitlord, and making them acknowledge that they are being shitty to you.