Why were the scribes against Jesus?

Answer 1

Jesus was winning over the people. He taught them as a man who had authority, not like the scribes. Jesus told them, that their tradition transgressed God's commandments. If the scribes had authority, it looks like it was based on their traditions

Answer 2

Back in the times of Jesus, not everyone could write, and a scribe was someone you hired to write things down for you or send written messages. A scribe was also someone who wrote the manuscripts (what would today be called books-- this was the era before the printing press), took notes about important events, preserved the words of the religious leaders, and performed other important tasks such as making sure religious texts were accurately copied and transmitted.

Answer 3

ANSWER:

There were Scribes in each of the two main parties of the Pharisees and the Sadducees, but they are usually synonomous with the Pharisees.

Matthew 12:38-40 KJV Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee.

The Pharisees were strict observers of the traditions, while the scribes were the teachersof them;

;"Smith's Bible Dictionary", entry "Scribes :-

[The Scribes] devoted themselves to the careful study of the text, and laid down rules for transcribing it with the most scrupulous precision. As time passed on, the "words of the scribes" were honored above the law. It was a greater crime to offend against them than against the law. The[y] ...annull[ed] the commandments of God for the sake of their own traditions. . The[y] ...evad[ed] the plainest duties, tampering with conscience. ... they were constantly denounced by our Lord, along with the Pharisees. While the scribes repeated the traditions of the elders, he "spake as one having authority," "not as the scribes." . While they confined their teachings to the class of scholars, he "had compassion on the multitudes." Mat_9:36. While they were to be found only in the council or in their schools, he journeyed through the cities and villages.

For example, the phrase " Pharisees and teachers of the Law " in Matthew 15:1 refers to both the Pharisees and Scribes.

Matthew 15:1-7, 9-14, 18-20 GNB Then some Pharisees and teachers of the Law came from Jerusalem to Jesus and asked him,

(v.2) "Why is it that your disciples disobey the teaching handed down by our ancestors? They don't wash their hands in the proper way before they eat!"

(v.3) Jesus answered, "And why do you disobey God's command and follow your own teaching?

(v.4) For God said,... (v.5) But ...(v.6) ¦. you disregard God's command, in order to follow your own teaching. (v.7) You hypocrites!... ...

(v.9) It is no use for them to worship me, because they teach human rules as though they were my laws!

" (v.10) Then Jesus called the crowd to him and said to them, "Listen and understand!

(v.11) It is not what goes into your mouth that makes you ritually unclean; rather, what comes out of it makes you unclean."

(v.12) Then the disciples came to him and said, "Do you know that the Pharisees had their feelings hurt["Offended" (ASV, ISV, KJV, MKJV, ), "Insulted" (CEV), ] by what you said?" (v.1

3) "Every plant which my Father in heaven did not plant will be pulled up," answered Jesus.

(v.14) "Don't worry about them! They are blind leaders of the blind; and when one blind man leads another, both fall into a ditch."

(v.18) But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these are the things that make you ritually unclean.

(v.19) For from your heart come the evil ideas which lead you to kill, commit adultery, and do other immoral things; to rob, lie, and slander others.

(v.20) These are the things that make you unclean. But to eat without washing your hands as they say you should---this doesn't make you unclean."

Christ called them

• 'hypocrites [matthew 15:7, 23:13, 14, 15, 23, 25, 27 , 28, 29, ],
• blind l [Matt 15:14, 23:16, 24, 26, ],
• fools [Matt 23:19, ]
• iniquitous/lawless [Matt 23: 28],
• serpents [Matt 23: 33],
• vipers [Matt 23:33]

The Pharisees were a political party, and scribes were a part of that : imagine how politicians of today would react to the same . No wonder they hated Him!

Answer 4

The scribes were jealous of Jesus because everybody was starting to obey Jesus and not them. They lied about Jesus and said that He wasn't the Messiah.

Answer 5

The Scribes, the Pharisees and the Sadducees hated Jesus. As seen in the Gospels they wanted him dead.