Research Paper On Jesus 1-14

By the time of Jesus’ life in Palestine, participation in the Pan-Hellenic world was redefining what it meant to be Jewish. Hellenistic Jews adapted to the new culture, while the Pharisees fought this assimilation by choosing a strict interpretation of Jewish law (Smarr 1/18). Into this picture steps Jesus. It is my interpretation that the Jesus depicted by the Gospel of Matthew does not intend to be a radical revolutionary seeking to establish an entirely new faith, but a reformer attempting to revive the moral and spiritual strength of Judaism, yet Jesus’ message of love and mercy as a formula for human relationship departs radically from the traditional Jewish emphasis on law and justice. I attempt to prove this through

This shows the contempt displayed by the Pharisee in relation to Jesus’ action. The next scene shows Jesus talking with Matthew, while the other disciples are watching from afar and eating. Two of the disciples were not impressed by Jesus’ newest recruit and made that apparent. One of the other disciples, John, then says, “Thomas, Jesus has not come for the good but for the sinners.” Mary Magdalene chimed in and said, “He gives people a second chance.

The Gospel of Matthew, at least in its final form, is dated in the 80s AD and was possibly written in Treasures New and Old (9: The Good News of Jesus) 2015 Syria. It gives us insights into the painful transition from Judaism to early Christianity, including a growing number of Gentiles. • Matthew’s community faces the problem of self-identity – Who are we? Where do we belong? Jewish Christians discussed among themselves what it means to follow Jesus, the Christ, and yet remain Jewish. Could these two things be reconciled? • Evidence of this dilemma occurs in those texts that describe the arguments that Jesus had with members of the Pharisaic group. The Pharisees were a reforming group within Judaism. They were sincere and genuinely concerned

The Pharisees heard of 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". Jesus was challenged many times but, he always got the better side of the argument. If Jesus failed an argument his ministry may have been crushed because the Pharisees and the teachers of the law would have spread the news that Jesus was a fraud. Another example of a threat to Jesus’ ministry is, “It was now winter, and Jesus was in Jerusalem at the time of Hanukkah, the Festival of Dedication. He was in the Temple, walking through the section known as Solomon’s Colonnade. The people surrounded him and asked, “How long are you going to keep us in suspense? If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly.”

I certainly don't think Jesus didn't have any intention(s) when he gave the Sermon on the Mount. There could very well be more than just one intention that Jesus had during this episode. However, I'm going to just focus on one possible intention that came to my mind as I was recently reading the passage in The Bible. My hypothesis is that one of the intentions Jesus had while giving his talk, was to show our need of a Savior. In other words, we need a Savior because we can't come anywhere near keeping the Law of God. I'm now going to now cite verses/passages that support my hypothesis.

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

Moreover, Jesus persists as constantly attacking people for their erroneous beliefs, and other unruly behaviors; such as the Scribes, (Matt 5:20, 23:14-15), the Pharisees, (Matt 23:25, Luke 11:44); the Sadducees, (Matt 16:11-12). He discredits Gentiles, and Samaritans (Matt 10:5); people buying and selling in the temple (Matt 21:12); heathens (Matt 6:7); publicans (Matt 18:17); anyone outside of the house of Israel (Matt 15:24- 26);

Likewise, the Pharisees and the Herodians, a political party at the time, concocted a plan to entangle Jesus in His convictions (Matt. 22:16). The aforementioned leaders orchestrated the plan; however, they sent some of their disciples who were zealous, conscientious men to pose their assumedly trick question to Jesus. At this time in Israel, there was a controversial question of having to pay taxes to Caesar or not and they wanted a clear-cut answer from Jesus (Matt. 22:17).

As we have surveyed in the previous section, the ML and the Sabbath functioned as external manifestations of what God’s truly desires from humans: love and holiness. These are manifest in obedience, respect, honor, and a general alignment of the human will with God’s will. This is why Jesus had such an energetic disdain against external, legalistic, and pharisaic manifestations of the law: it corrupted the true meaning of the law and turned God’s commands into an external and mechanical recipe to gain righteousness—something it was never meant to be. Jesus uses colorful language to describe this attitude: he said they “strain out a gnat but swallow a camel,” that they are “blind guides,” “hypocrites,” “whitewashed tombs” full of “bones and all uncleanness,” “serpents,” “brood of vipers” destined to hell. For Jesus, keeping the Sabbath without love was sacrilegious. Jesus was always more concerned with the heart, with true faith, and with internal devotion, than with external “cleanness.” Jesus and his disciples were accused of violating the Sabbath in multiple occasions; however the problem resides in the interpretation and meaning of the Sabbath for Jesus versus what it meant to the Pharisees. Jesus was not laboring for economic gain, but doing good deeds for man’s benefit (Matt 2:27). The Pharisees instead turned the Law into an outward observance devoid of spiritual significance. In short, they misapply it to “score points” with God and gains

Have you ever experienced the birth of Jesus?Well I have because I am the angel that told the birth.I am a pretty important person in the bible.However,Jesus asked me that night to help him.Here is my story,and experience of his birth.

In John’s gospel, the Pharisees were portrayed as the main violators of the misconceptions. They were a popular and respectable among the lower classes as they provided education for moral dilemmas. They also provided the people with ‘fence laws’ to help them stray away from sin. ‘Fence laws’ consisted of outer rules to follow so that one could not get tempted to violating the ten commandments given in the Torah.

I know it is strange but I really do enjoy mowing the lawn. Call me crazy, I know! Let me explain, what I love about it is the sense of accomplishment. What I enjoy is I can see what I have done and what I still have to cut. Not all jobs and tasks in life are like that. Other jobs and tasks are not so clearly defined.

The parable of the Pharisee and tax collector in Luke 18 is a cautionary story that Jesus teaches to a specific crowd of people. In it he deals with humility, righteousness, and justification. The parable describes two different types of people whose occupations are very familiar to any of Jesus’ audience, a Pharisee and a tax collector. The significance of this parable is that it is aimed at a certain type of person, which gives it the ability to be applied outside of Jesus’ immediate context. The type of audience described in this passage has two parts. The first is “those who trusted in themselves that they were righteous”, and the second: “and regarded others with contempt” (Luke 18:9).

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

In order for us to experience God’s grace, we must take seriously the need to repent and to have a change of heart. We must repent and turn our hearts to our Savior, Jesus, so we can receive the grace of God. Jesus helps us to understand that life is not just about following every rule and declaring or deciding who is righteous in the sight of God. People can follow all the ordinances of the church and still not have a heart of God or the heart of God’s people. Because the Pharisees had the rules down, they knew how to obey the traditions and the festivals of their faith. They knew how to enforce the laws which were given to their ancestors by Moses in the Torah after their great exit from the oppression they faced in Egypt. The Ten Commandments and the laws found in the book of Deuteronomy. Their failure was they ensured the religious community