The Pharisees, scribes, priests and Sadducees were all classified as religious leaders in the bible. None of them had any faith in Jesus, they believed he was a fake of who he said he was on this earth. During this time in the bible, no one really knew who Jesus really was
Jesus exposes to the Pharisees that his point was to call sinners to repentance. The tradition of table fellowship was quite common among the Pharisees (Green 244). The dinner represents a festive event, depicting Levi’s leaving everything. By leaving everything, Levi has repented (Green 246).
Collating all the sources from early non-Christian sources, we can come up with the following facts about Jesus Christ which perfectly agree with the data of the New Testament:
If I was to ask who Jesus was, I would have said that he was Jesus the son of David, son of Abraham. Jesus led many into Christianity and they were called Christians as Jesus was the Christ the son of God whom God sent to save mankind. I believe in Him as a leader and savior, and follow his teachings. I believe in one God, God the father the almighty. Who created heaven and earth, and all things; seen and un-seen Jesus is a divine being whom a virgin mother conceived of. God made this occurrence possible. Jesus however grew and lived among humans on earth over 2000 years ago. Jesus was a Jew, where he lived and died in Israel and spent his life in ministry with his disciples, teaching and spreading of the word of God and
Lineage of Jesus had mentioned twice in the New Testament, Matthew 1 and Luke 3: 23-38. In Matthew, the genealogy of Jesus can traced back to Abraham and in Luke, Jesus traced back to Adam. However, we still have reason to believe that, Matthew and Luke are completely different lineages. For example, Matthew indicated that, Jacob is Joseph's father (Matthew 1:16), while Luke indicated that, Heli is Joseph's father (Luke 3:23). Therefore, Matthew’s traced clue is David's son- Solomon (Matthew 1: 6), and Luke clue is David's son- Nathan (Luke 3:31). In fact, between David and Jesus, they have two same names: Shealtiel and Zerubbabel (Matthew 1:12, Luke 3:27).
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.”
The problem for the Pharisees was that, Jesus had disobey the laws by healing on the Sabbath. Something that was against the laws. They believe that the healings should have taken place on a different day, and not the Sabbath. Since the Sabbath was a day when no one ought to work. Jesus made a decent point, that if is okay for the Pharisees to take care of their animals on the Sabbath, which is consider doing a chores, then he should be allow to heal a daughter of Abraham. He did not only see them as pretenders, yet those that did not practice what they preach. Besides, they were not abiding by the laws either.
Were it not for the power that Jesus inherited from His Father, His great sacrifice would not have been possible. On the night Jesus was betrayed, He took three of the Twelve and went into the place called Gethsemane. It was there He suffered the pains of all men. He suffered as only God could suffer, bearing our griefs, carrying our sorrows, being wounded for our transgressions, voluntarily submitting Himself to the iniquity of us all, just as Isaiah prophesied. It was in Gethsemane where Jesus took on Himself the sins of the world, in Gethsemane where His pain was equivalent to the cumulative burden of all men, in Gethsemane where He descended below all things so that all could repent and come to Him. Jesus was ordered to carry the crossbeam
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1 All the tax collectors and sinners were gathering around Jesus to listen to him. 2 The Pharisees and legal experts were grumbling, saying, “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.”
The timing of the birth of Jesus was right because God knew it was right. Galatians 4:4 declares God the Father sent his son when “the time had fully come. The Jews were waiting for the Messiah to come since the Romans overruled the Israel. The Roman Empire ruled during the New Testament Christian was able to roam freely and spread the Gospel. According to Gundry, sexual sin was prohibited by the God’s and Goddesses they worship lead to their immorality (Gundry, pp 57-58). He stated that divorces were frequent; murder was common and sexual entertainment in public. Secondly, timing of Jesus was right because of new mysterious cult arises from Paganism worshiping Greek Gods to Philosophies of reasons and explanations.
This passage is preceded by a warning from Jesus about the Sadducees and Pharisees, and to beware of their false teachings, which is a common theme in Matthew. As usual, he rebukes them for their lack of faith and comprehension of his true mission and identity, and for their constant concern
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.
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.