How Did Jesus Disobey Laws By Healing On The Sabbath

2 Some of them were looking for a reason to accuse Jesus, so they watched him closely to see if he would heal him on the Sabbath. 3 Jesus said to the man with the shriveled hand, "Stand up in front of everyone." 4 Then Jesus asked them, "Which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill?" But they remained silent. 5 He looked around at them in anger and, deeply distressed at their stubborn hearts, said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." He stretched it out, and his hand was completely restored. 6 Then the Pharisees went out and began to plot with the Herodians how they might kill

Now, Theissen presents the Pharisees as being much less unified and opposed to these teachings. For example, Theissen shows the lack of unification on this issue by showing that the two Pharisees do not agree on if it’s permissible to save a sheep who is

Despite the fact, the Pharisees were famous and esteemed, they didn’t have power. “They accept the written Law of Moses known as the Torah, the written Tanakh (all other books in the OT) and in oral traditions and teachings.” The Pharisees were a group that exercised a form of intense Judaism that continued past the Temple, administering Jewish constitution to all things, even everyday life in supposing to consecrate (set apart as holy) the ordinary world. (Sweet, "Who were the Pharisees, Sadducees, Scribes and Zealots?")

Pharisees wanted Jesus to die because Jesus had thousands of followers because they thought he was the messiah and that he could perform miracles of healing. Pharisees also wanted Jesus dead because since he had so many followers, Jesus could have planned an uprising against Rome. Many Romans disliked Jesus for the same reasons Pharisees hated Jesus, they thought he could overthrow the government.

After reading Mk. 6-11, several things stood out to me. First, in Mk. 6: 50, when Jesus walks on water, the disciples are incredibly frightened. They think he is an evil specter. This stood out to me because the disciples trusted Jesus with their lives, but when he does something like that, which is beyond their understanding, they freak out. You would think that with the things that the disciples had seen Jesus do, that this wouldn’t really surprise them. Second, in Mk. 7:1-9 Jesus thought that the Commandments were more important than tradition, but the Pharisees didn’t. This stood out to me because the Pharisees were supposed to be religious leaders, but in some cases, seemed to disregard the Commandments in difference to their traditions. This mainly seemed to come into play with divorce and its rules. Third, in Mk. 10:2-8 Jesus taught that a husband and wife became one flesh. This stood out to me because I know that a husband and wife are supposed to be close, but Jesus teaches that they should become one. This has to be awfully hard to achieve because I know that sometimes a husband and wife have disagreements. The lesson that I learned in these chapters is that Jesus said, “Whatever goes into a man from outside can’t defile him, what comes out of the man defiles him.” This shows

With that being said it is likely (hypothetically) if Jesus killed someone, it would spark up this "Holy War" if you will, in which the Pharisees did not really need much of a reason because they wanted to kill

Jesus continued preaching about the kingdom of God, the crowds grew larger and began to proclaim him as the son of David and as the Messiah. The Pharisees heard this and publicly challenged Jesus, accusing him of having the power of Satan. He defended his actions with a parable, then questioned their logic and told them such thinking denied the power of God, which only further hardened their resolve to work against him.

In Exodus 3:29, the Lord God called the nation of Israel a stiff-necked people; thus considering Israel’s obstinacy, and history of rejecting many of God’s chosen, it becomes of no surprise that Israel would also reject Jesus. According to the New Testament Scriptures, Jesus performed many signs and wonders to authenticate being the Son of God and Israel’s Messiah, however, and as recorded by the gospel writers Matthew and Mark (Matthew 12:22-37; Mark 3:20-30), Jesus’ miracle of casting a demon out of deaf and blind man was attributed to Beelzebub or Satan by the Pharisees (Pentecost, 1981). Hence, the miracle not only caused dismay amongst the Pharisees but the people who witnessed the miracle as well (Pentecost, 1981). Unfortunately, the people of Israel were taught through the law by the Pharisees that the sheep should follow the shepherd; therefore, the people of Israel were unwilling to accept Christ unless the Pharisees accepted Christ. Regrettably, the Pharisees as shepherds quickly convinced the sheep that the miracle performed in Matthew and

Also some Pharisees insisted that it was needful to circumcise them and to command them to keep the law of Moses. The main issue was finally brought up which was circumcision but there was also other important problems too. There was a big dispute between the follows of the Pillars of the Church which was led by James who believed following his interpretation of the great commision, that the church must obserce the Tora, for example the rules of traditional Judaism, and Paul, who believed there was no need. Also diets, fornication and idolatry were dealt with.

This message of morality is accompanied by one emphasizing faith in the Jesus/Lord unit, a value that had always been present in Judaism but never to the degree that Jesus requires. This address the loss of spirituality that resulted from the Pharisees’ emphasis on tradition as the basis of society. Jesus repeatedly criticizes the Pharisees as “hypocrites” (Cousland 1747) that just go through the motions of prayer and giving alms to be seen by others as pious (NOAB Matt 6:1-5). Instead, the people are told to do these things in secret (NOAB Matt 6:3-6). The good that comes from faith and the disaster that comes from the lack of it are the driving messages behind most of the parables (NOAB Matt 13:1-53). In addition, many of the sick and dead that Jesus heals are revived because of their faith or that of others close to them (NOAB Matt 8:5-13, NOAB Matt 9:20-22, NOAB Matt 9:27-29).

No way the Pharisees would be caught dead eating with someone who everyone knew was a sinner or a tax collector and Jesus as a Rabbi should not be eating with them either. In their eyes, Jesus was sinning by eating with the sinners and tax

The healing of the centurion’s servant by Jesus was found in three of the Gospels: Matthew 8:1, 5 – 15, Mark 3:20, 21 and Luke 7:1 – 10. Jesus is ministering in Capernaum a little fishing town on the shores of Galilee that became a popular place for Jesus and His ministry. It was here in Capernaum Jesus performing many miracles including the healing of Peter’s mother-in-law. In Capernaum there was a Roman Centurion who was described as one who loved Israel and served Israel by building them a synagogue. It would be from the synagogue that Jesus would teach the people of the city some of the ruins of it still exist today. The Roman Centurion was a captain of the troop in Capernaum and in the service of Herod Antipas. Normally the troops

The Pharisees disliked Jesus. Pharisees disliked Jesus because they felt that Jesus threatened their security and prestige.

At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath; his disciples were hungry, and they began to pluck heads of grain and to eat. When the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, “Look, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath,” He said to them, “Have you not read what David did when he and his companions were hungry? He entered the house of God and ate the bread of the Presence, which it was not lawful for him or his companions to eat, but only for the priests. Or have you not read in the law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple break the Sabbath and yet are guiltless? I tell you, something greater than the temple is here. But if you had known what this means, ‘I

Sadly, man was too blinded by self-gain and legalism to understand that God was in their very presence. The Pharisees by this point have formed a society, (mostly in Jerusalem) that has focused on false redemption as taught only by Satan. Paul Louis Metzger in his reflection about this blindness states that the Jews, “refuse to deal with who he truly is and who they truly are-living under the illusion that they are free through false forms of redemption.” They fail to see that Jesus of Nazareth is actually Jesus the Christ, Savior of the world and in so doing they begin a vengeful plot to slaughter Jesus like the lambs of the Passover. They would begin a three-year quest filled with