And while all the people were listening, He said to the disciples. Go. Jesus sent out 70 Disciples to preach His Good News. But Jesus, aware of their reasonings, answered and said to them, Why are you reasoning in your hearts? When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the man, Take heart, son; your sins are forgiven. At this, some of the teachers of the law said to themselves, This fellow is blaspheming!.As Jesus went on from there, two blind men followed him, calling out, Have mercy on us, Son of David!When he had gone indoors, the blind men came to him, and he asked them, Do you believe that I am able to do this? Yes, Lord, they replied. Do not be called leaders; for One is your Leader, that is, Christ. The Nazarene was a worthy sparring partner. Now the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, were listening to all these things and were scoffing at Him. Everyone was amazed and gave praise to God. Jesus' view of the Pharisees is exactly opposite of their self-image. For you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous, and say, If we had been living in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partners with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.. How Jesus Corrected and Confronted His Opponents and Hypocrites 1. 3. And he said to them, He applied clay to my eyes, and I washed, and I see.read more.Therefore some of the Pharisees were saying, This man is not from God, because He does not keep the Sabbath. But others were saying, How can a man who is a sinner perform such signs? And there was a division among them. And if you have not been faithful in the use of that which is anothers, who will give you that which is your own? Matthew had been a tax collector, and these "sinners" were his friends and acquaintances who were now spending time with Jesus. Then the Pharisees went and plotted together how they might trap Him in what He said. Straightening up, Jesus said to her, Woman, where are they? Early Christian CommunionWine or Mingled Wine? And whoever swears by heaven, swears both by the throne of God and by Him who sits upon it. And they had forgotten to take bread, and did not have more than one loaf in the boat with them. Jesus said to them, I will also ask you one thing, which if you tell Me, I will also tell you by what authority I do these things. Do you not yet understand or remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets full you picked up? When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard His parables, they understood that He was speaking about them. And whoever swears by the temple, swears both by the temple and by Him who dwells within it. And do you not remember, when I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces you picked up? They *said to Him, Twelve. When I broke the seven for the four thousand, how many large baskets full of broken pieces did you pick up? And they *said to Him, Seven. And He was saying to them, Do you not yet understand?. Truly I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation. So you, too, outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. New International Version So Judas came to the garden, guiding a detachment of soldiers and some officials from the chief priests and the Pharisees. Even though Jesus was a volatile guest, the invitations to dinner kept coming. And if they said it was not lawful to heal on the Sabbath, they would have no Biblical backing. plotting against Him to catch Him in something He might say. And He began to tell the people this parable: A man planted a vineyard and rented it out to vine-growers, and went on a journey for a long time. In the end, Jesus makes a final plea to them to believe in Him and chapter seven finishes with the people reacting to Jesus' appearance in Jerusalem in a variety of ways. For you are like concealed tombs, and the people who walk over them are unaware of it. One of the lawyers *said to Him in reply, Teacher, when You say this, You insult us too. But He said, Woe to you lawyers as well! When the scribes of the Pharisees saw that He was eating with the sinners and tax collectors, they said to His disciples, Why is He eating and drinking with tax collectors and sinners? And hearing this, Jesus *said to them, It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick; I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners., And Levi gave a big reception for Him in his house; and there was a great crowd of tax collectors and other people who were reclining at the table with them. The Pharisees and some of the scribes gathered around Him when they had come from Jerusalem, and had seen that some of His disciples were eating their bread with impure hands, that is, unwashed. I am not strong enough to dig; I am ashamed to beg. PHARISEES CONFRONT THE ONCE BLIND MAN RELIGIOUS LEADERS ARE "BLIND" The Pharisees cannot accept that Jesus gave sight to the man who was born blind, so they call in his parents. For this reason also the wisdom of God said, I will send to them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will kill and some they will persecute, so that the blood of all the prophets, shed since the foundation of the world, may be charged against this generation, from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who was killed between the altar and the house of God; yes, I tell you, it shall be charged against this generation. Woe to you lawyers! But woe to you Pharisees! And He said to them, Which one of you will have a son or an ox fall into a well, and will not immediately pull him out on a Sabbath day?. Do you have a hardened heart? After looking around at them all, He said to him, Stretch out your hand! And he did so; and his hand was restored. Then he touched their eyes and said, According to your faith let it be done to you; and their sight was restored. But He replied to them, "When it is evening, you say, 'It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.' And in the morning, 'There will be a storm today, for the sky is red and threatening.' At the harvest time he sent a slave to the vine-growers, in order to receive some of the produce of the vineyard from the vine-growers. A Pharisee was a member of a strict Jewish sect, and it is clear from Luke's narrative that Simon has invited Jesus to his house to challenge him on points of Jewish law . The Pharisee stood and was praying this to himself: God, I thank You that I am not like other people: swindlers, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.read more.I fast twice a week; I pay tithes of all that I get. But the tax collector, standing some distance away, was even unwilling to lift up his eyes to heaven, but was beating his breast, saying, God, be merciful to me, the sinner! I tell you, this man went to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.. The Pharisees of the New Testament are clearly cast as the bad guys, the perfect ideological and spiritual foils to Jesus and his followers. Being unable to get to Him because of the crowd, they removed the roof above Him; and when they had dug an opening, they let down the pallet on which the paralytic was lying. Bring Me a denarius to look at., They brought one. Sure, Jewish people encouraged forgiveness for each other, but they don't explicitly believe in forgiving their enemies as far as I know. But they do all their deeds to be noticed by men; for they broaden their phylacteries and lengthen the tassels of their garments. And I say to you, make friends for yourselves by means of the wealth of unrighteousness, so that when it fails, they will receive you into the eternal dwellings. The owner of the vineyard said, What shall I do? And He *said to them, Whose likeness and inscription is this? And they said to Him, Caesars.. And they questioned Jesus, asking, Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?so that they might accuse Him. He who is faithful in a very little thing is faithful also in much; and he who is unrighteous in a very little thing is unrighteous also in much. But He detected their trickery and said to them, Show Me a denarius. 'Give Me a drink,' you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water. So then, it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath. Then He *said to the man, Stretch out your hand! He stretched it out, and it was restored to normal, like the other. The scribes and the Pharisees *brought a woman caught in adultery, and having set her in the center of the court. If David then calls Him Lord, how is He his son? No one was able to answer Him a word, nor did anyone dare from that day on to ask Him another question. And he proceeded to send another slave; and they beat him also and treated him shamefully and sent him away empty-handed. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! So they watched Him, and sent spies who pretended to be righteous, in order that they might catch Him in some statement, so that they could deliver Him to the rule and the authority of the governor. The Pharisees and Sadducees came up, and testing Jesus, they asked Him to show them a sign from heaven. Now one of the Pharisees was requesting Him to dine with him, and He entered the Pharisees house and reclined at the table. Jesus Corrected and Confronted Publicly: Jesus corrected the false teaching of the Scribes and Pharisees by teaching His disciples to be on constant guard against it. The second is like it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets.. And a man was there whose hand was withered. Some men brought to him a paralyzed man, lying on a mat. He entered again into a synagogue; and a man was there whose hand was withered. And whoever swears by heaven, swears both by the throne of God and by Him who sits upon it. Jesus asked the Pharisees and experts in the law. Tom: We're continuing with our study of the Gospel of John, chapter one, and for the purpose of really understanding the gospel, that's what we've been dealing with for over a year now, Dave, in this segment of our program. They were watching Him to see if He would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse Him. Jesus began by acknowledging that they were seated in Moses' seat. When Jesus called out His hometown for their unbelief (Luke 4:16-30). Now it was a Sabbath on the day when Jesus made the clay and opened his eyes. The Pharisees saw this as another opportunity to accuse Jesus if He would heal the man on the Sabbath, and they raised the question, "Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days?" (12:10). Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod. They began to discuss with one another the fact that they had no bread.read more.And Jesus, aware of this, *said to them, Why do you discuss the fact that you have no bread? All the crowds were amazed, and were saying, This man cannot be the Son of David, can he? But when the Pharisees heard this, they said, This man casts out demons only by Beelzebul the ruler of the demons., The scribes who came down from Jerusalem were saying, He is possessed by Beelzebul, and He casts out the demons by the ruler of the demons., At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath, and His disciples became hungry and began to pick the heads of grain and eat. But beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.. 3. What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate. They *said to Him, Why then did Moses command to give her a certificate of divorce and send her away? He *said to them, Because of your hardness of heart Moses permitted you to divorce your wives; but from the beginning it has not been this way. And he sent another, and that one they killed; and so with many others, beating some and killing others. Therefore I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people, producing the fruit of it. You cannot serve God and wealth. Now the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, were listening to all these things and were scoffing at Him. 12 The Pharisees' legal rulings are criticised as too lenient by the Sadducees (according to the Mishnah), Josephus, the Qumran community, and indeed Matthew's Jesus, who, in the . Sunday School Lesson March 5 Lesson 1 (KJV) The Prodigal Son Devotional Reading: Psalm 28 Background Scripture: Luke 15:11-32 Luke 15:11-24 11 And he said, A certain man had two sons: 12 And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. Example: > 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Do you not yet see or understand? But the Pharisee, noticing that Jesus did not first wash before the meal, was surprised. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach. Sighing deeply in His spirit, He *said, Why does this generation seek for a sign? All the names for our week days come from Roman and Norse/Anglo-Saxon gods. I am not strong enough to dig; I am ashamed to beg.read more.I know what I shall do, so that when I am removed from the management people will welcome me into their homes. And he summoned each one of his masters debtors, and he began saying to the first, How much do you owe my master? And he said, A hundred measures of oil. And he said to him, Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty. Then he said to another, And how much do you owe? And he said, A hundred measures of wheat. He *said to him, Take your bill, and write eighty. And his master praised the unrighteous manager because he had acted shrewdly; for the sons of this age are more shrewd in relation to their own kind than the sons of light. But Jesus, aware of this, said, You men of little faith, why do you discuss among yourselves that you have no bread? They remained silent. so that the blood of all the prophets, shed since the foundation of the world, may be charged against this generation, from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who was killed between the altar and the house of God; yes, I tell you, it shall be charged against this generation., Woe to you lawyers! The Pharisees were saying to Him, Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?, Now it happened that He was passing through some grainfields on a Sabbath; and His disciples were picking the heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands, and eating the grain. But some of the Pharisees said, Why do you do what is not lawful on the Sabbath?. And they *came, bringing to Him a paralytic, carried by four men. One of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?, Now when the Pharisee who had invited Him saw this, he said to himself, If this man were a prophet He would know who and what sort of person this woman is who is touching Him, that she is a sinner. And Jesus answered him, Simon, I have something to say to you. And he replied, Say it, Teacher., Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to Him, Teacher, rebuke Your disciples.. Again He stooped down and wrote on the ground. saying: The scribes and the Pharisees have seated themselves in the chair of Moses; therefore all that they tell you, do and observe, but do not do according to their deeds; for they say things and do not do them. They began to discuss with one another the fact that they had no bread. 3 And they come unto him, bringing one sick of the . On another Sabbath He entered the synagogue and was teaching; and there was a man there whose right hand was withered. The converted disciple of Jesus, Matthew, the Jewish tax collector, records Jesus words about Scribes & Pharisees in Matthew 23:1-7, Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples: The teachers of the law (Scribes) and the Pharisees sit in Moses seat. Christian missionaries have taught people in Papua, New Guinea who had many gods before their conversion to recite the Hebrew Shema announcing only ONE GOD. There were only 8 people in Noahs Ark. When they sought to seize Him, they feared the people, because they considered Him to be a prophet. The Pharisees were saying to Him, Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?. (Luke 13:10-17). The men of Nineveh will stand up with this generation at the judgment, and will condemn it because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, something greater than Jonah is here. And it *happened that He was reclining at the table in his house, and many tax collectors and sinners were dining with Jesus and His disciples; for there were many of them, and they were following Him. And he proceeded to send another slave; and they beat him also and treated him shamefully and sent him away empty-handed.read more.And he proceeded to send a third; and this one also they wounded and cast out. And He answered and said to them, What did Moses command you? They said, Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce and send her away.read more.But Jesus said to them, Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment. They took him, and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. They tie up heavy burdens and lay them on mens shoulders, but they themselves are unwilling to move them with so much as a finger. How Did Jesus Spend the Last Week of His Life? And some men were carrying on a bed a man who was paralyzed; and they were trying to bring him in and to set him down in front of Him. This is the great and foremost commandment. Is it lawful to pay a poll-tax to Caesar, or not? So you, too, outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. But He answered and said to them, An evil and adulterous generation craves for a sign; and yet no sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah the prophet; Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the sea monster. Is it lawful to pay a poll-tax to Caesar, or not? 4. Do you not yet understand or remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets full you picked up? Then He said to them, How is it that they say the Christ is Davids son? One of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?read more.And He said to him, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the great and foremost commandment. The Lord our God is one Lord; and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.read more.The second is this, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than these. The scribe said to Him, Right, Teacher; You have truly stated that He is One, and there is no one else besides Him; and to love Him with all the heart and with all the understanding and with all the strength, and to love ones neighbor as himself, is much more than all burnt offerings and sacrifices. When Jesus saw that he had answered intelligently, He said to him, You are not far from the kingdom of God. After that, no one would venture to ask Him any more questions. The Pharisee stood and was praying this to himself: God, I thank You that I am not like other people: swindlers, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. It seemed like another row could be brewing after Ron was left fuming by Shaq's remarks, teasing at more tension in Sunday's upcoming episode. Is it lawful to give a poll-tax to Caesar, or not?. Jesus healed the man and then asked the Pharisees whether they would rescue their own son on a Sabbath day if he fell into a well. Seeing their faith, Jesus said to the paralytic, Take courage, son; your sins are forgiven., And some of the scribes said to themselves, This fellow blasphemes.. Again he sent another group of slaves larger than the first; and they did the same thing to them. But when the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered themselves together. The Pharisees and their scribes began grumbling at His disciples, saying, Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners? And Jesus answered and said to them, It is not those who are well who need a physician, but those who are sick.read more.I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance., As they were going out, a mute, demon-possessed man was brought to Him. Now in the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women; what then do You say?read more.They were saying this, testing Him, so that they might have grounds for accusing Him. And He said to them, What man is there among you who has a sheep, and if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will he not take hold of it and lift it out? So they answered that they did not know where it came from. You blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel! 00:00. And He was giving orders to them, saying, Watch out! The Pharisees went out and immediately began conspiring with the Herodians against Him, as to how they might destroy Him. For I say to you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven. Jesus stepped into a boat, crossed over and came to his own town (then Capernaum). Sextus Julius AfricanusWhy Did The Magi Come ? But when the Pharisees saw this, they said to Him, Look, Your disciples do what is not lawful to do on a Sabbath., And it happened that He was passing through the grainfields on the Sabbath, and His disciples began to make their way along while picking the heads of grain. And Jesus said, For judgment I came into this world, so that those who do not see may see, and that those who see may become blind. Those of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these things and said to Him, We are not blind too, are we? Jesus said to them, If you were blind, you would have no sin; but since you say, We see, your sin remains. New American Standard Bible Copyright 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. All rights reserved.