Jesus only loses his cool a handful of times in the New Testament (just ask the moneychangers in the Temple), but he unleashes one of his fiercest tirades in Matthew 23 against the Pharisees and ...

In Matthew for instance, there are the "Woes on the Pharisees," whereas at the same time we have statements about Jesus coming to fulfill the law. So there seems to be a debate between Matthew and ...

Show more The word hypocrite gets used with such regularity – and Jesus himself had form using the term. How did the Pharisees became a byword for hypocrisy and is it fair? Was Jesus wrong about ...

Matthew's community subscribed to the Law, but they saw Jesus -- not the Pharisees-- as the rightful interpreter of the Law. This conviction tended to undermine the legitimacy and authority of the ...

Jesus uses this example as the Pharisees would not criticise or question the actions of their greatest king. Jesus is explaining that human need is more important than man made laws and ...

The Pharisees were one of several Jewish sects during the first century, the time of Jesus. They also include the rabbis of the Talmud and the creators of Rabbinic Judaism, the ideological ...

Jesus, as a faithful Jew, observed the Sabbath and emphasised its importance, but He also redefined its purpose. In today's ...

In this way of living, we are called especially to embrace those who differ from us, particularly in matters of sexuality, ...