Sentences with phrase «scribes rhett»

Perhaps the Scribes and Pharisees recognised this and wished to confront Him with their greatest teacher, Moses.

Apparently the local Pharisees have called some scribes down from Jerusalem to observe Jesus, and they enter the controversy.

Now the Messiah was not expected to forgive sins in Jewish thought, so the scribes are not faced with a messianic claim.

Colossians 2:8... (Spoken by the Apostle Paul) Look out: perhaps there may be someone who will carry YOU off as his prey through the philosophy and empty deception according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary things of the world and not according to Christ; Mark 7:1 - 13... (Jesus was speaking) Now the Pharisees and some of the scribes that had come from Jerusalem gathered about him.

If he said that «tax - gatherers and prostitutes» were more promising subjects than «scribes and Pharisees, it was in the sense that they were free from the odious complacency of the self - consciously pious.

This word is addressed both to the rebellious, unbelieving hearts of the scribes and to the naive, trusting hearts of those who brought their friend on the pallet.

The scribes and the disciples are arguing over the latter's failure to cure an epileptic boy.

It is now Wednesday of holy week, and the priests and scribes decide to take Jesus at once, and privately, in view of the crowds gathering for the passover celebration.

Now some of the scribes were sitting there, questioning in their hearts, «Why does this man speak thus?

Having rejected some of the scribes» teaching, having just praised a sympathetic scribe's response, Jesus here turns to a criticism of their religious practice, making a devastating attack on religious professionalism.

In responding to the scribes, however, Jesus plays neither the role of the Rabbi nor of the Compassionate One.

(Of course, if Jesus is not what he claims to be, the scribes are right.

The scribes have said that you must tell the truth when you are under oath.

11:28 refers to those who labor and are heavy laden by the burden of the law which the scribes put upon men.

In the New Testament it describes not only the scribes and Pharisees but also the disciples (Mark 6:52).

Some of the scribes belonging to the strict Pharisee party accused the disciples: Why does he eat with such riffraff?

The scribes say that limited retaliation is possible.

Jesus may not be directly accusing his family and scribes of committing such a sin, but he does suggest that they are close to it.

It includes healings or miracles, problems with the scribes.

Jesus is not destroying the Old Testament law as the contemporary scribes are interpreting it.

Jesus continues in effect: «The scribes tell you that the commandment against adultery is kept if you avoid the overt act of adultery.

-- let us say an Aryan, a Hindu, a Greek, or a member of the Roman proletariat, something would surely be found to betray this fact in the diversified gospel tradition we possess; or if, say, he had had no connection with John the Baptist, or had not criticized the scribes, or had been stoned to death rather than crucified.

In the understanding of these scribes, Jesus was playing with divine fire, which most surely would consume him.

Jesus the Jewish Rabbi might have given the scribes a lecture on the relationship of sickness and sin.

The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, «This man receives sinners and eats with them» (Luke 15:2) This is a picture of the salvific truth of God's «repentance.»

Hence the nation as a whole could only see in such public ideals as those of Jesus an abnormal and dangerous fantasy; the majority, who followed the Scribes and Pharisees (The Tannaim).

But you scribes, he says, fully approve when an unscrupulous son makes a vow to dedicate all his income to the temple, depriving his poor parents of their only means of support.

Thus the saying about the accuser is an illustration of the righteousness that exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees.

Then, after Matthew and Luke used it in their enlarged, improved Gospels, that primitive collection of Jesus» sayings was itself no longer copied and transmitted by Christian scribes, since the church of course — unfortunately — preferred those more up - to - date and complete Gospels.

On the very next day, the day after the Feast of the Tabernacles, as Jesus was teaching the people in the court yard of the Temple, the scribes and Pharisees brought to him a woman who had been caught in the act of committing adultery.

Matthew marks the conclusions of the discourse (7:28 - 29) with his usual formula («And when Jesus finished these sayings»), completing the sentence with the statement made by Mark and Luke about Jesus» teaching in the synagogue at Capernaum (cf. Mk 1:22; Lk 4:32): «the crowds were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as one who had authority, and not as their scribes.»

Once Mark speaks of «the scribes of the Pharisees,» and Luke uses the same expression once in Acts (Mk 2:16; cf. Acts 23:9).

Involvement with Scribes (Jewish teachers)... (S) 26 references to scribes, who are puzzled and angered by Jesus» teachings... (J) No references at all.

I'm sure if Christ were here on the earth today he would liken most of them to the Scribes and Pharisees of old.

The scribes might counsel a humble waiting for God's appointed time, but for the «man in the street» that meant no more than postponing for a while the fulfillment of the same national ambitions, and the satisfying of the same national grudges, which the Zealots proposed to settle out of hand by «direct action».

In general, with a rough oversimplification, it may be said that the Pharisees were a movement or an unorganized party; the scribes were more like a profession though not paid.

Apparently most of the scribes, but not all, were Pharisees.

We have met the scribes in the synagogue at Capernaum (Mk 1:22).

Doubting because science describes the world around us differently than his scribes.

Meanwhile the most respected religious leaders (the «scribes and Pharisees» of the Gospels) advocated a policy of passive submission, combined with an ever - tightening internal discipline, until it should please God to intervene and «set up His Kingdom», as the prophets had foretold.

One must be more righteous than the scribes and Pharisees to enter the kingdom of heaven (i.e. gain eternal life).

The expression «scribes and Pharisees» is very common.

This is what the scribes and Pharisees were known for doing.

Even if, by some remote chance, he did exist, his words were never recorded and left for posterity.Those words you are devoted to are made up by scribes and monks, with an agenda.

The Pharisees and scribes were actually, he told them, «making void the word of God» by their tradition (Mk 7:13; Mt 15:6).

These healings arouse opposition from some of the scribes when Jesus claims the power to forgive sins (2:6 - 7), and when he heals on the Sabbath the Pharisees and Herodians take counsel to destroy him (3:6); later, scribes from Jerusalem ascribe his powers to possession of Beelzebub (3:22).

He was illiterate you know and narrated the Koran to scribes who could have written anything they wanted down in its leaves without Mohammed knowing any better.

In the case of the New Testament, it is the Christ as experienced by Paul — a concept that was immediately misunderstood, perhaps not by Paul himself, but certainly by his followers and scribes.

Then the Pharisees and Scribes showed up and quote law.

The Jewish people of Jesus time, had a perfect text, from the finger of god, to scribes who were meticulous about making copies without translating the text, as we have to do for our bibles.