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Jesus taught the Pharisees there but they seldom agreed with him, in fact they took council to kill him.
Not all the Pharisees were against Jesus and the Christians. Nicodemus was a Pharisee and member of the Sannhedrin in Jesus' time. Gamaliel also was evidently a reasonable person although most of the Pharisees rejected Jesus, His message and person. Thus it is clear that the writers of the Bible accounts took into account the specific reactions of individuals to Christ and the Christian message. They were thus not prejudiced but based their judgment on specific information, although it is true it seems that by far the majority were hostile to Christ.
Although religiously divided, Pharisees joined Sadducees in trying to tempt Jesus by asking him for a sign (Matthew 16:1), and both groups were united in their opposition to him. However, biblical evidence indicates that the Sadducees took a leading part in seeking Jesus' death. Sadducees were members of the Sanhedrin, which court plotted against Jesus and, later, condemned him to death. (Matthew 26:59-66; John 11:47-53)
Most of what Jesus taught was entirely consistent with Jewish tradition, and particularly, consistent with the more liberal of the two dominant streams within the Pharisees. The Pharisees at the time were divided between the school of Rabbi Hillel, which took a generally lenient and humanistic stand on issues, and the school of Rabbi Shamai, which took a strict legalistic stand. By the end of the first century, it was clear that Hillel's disciples had won, so the teachings of Jesus were largely on the winning side.Also, Jesus' teaching methods were typically Phariseeic. The Pharisees frequently taught using parables, a parable is a mashal in Hebrew, plural mashalim). There are lots of parables in the Talmud, and even one of them that shows up both in the Jerusalem Talmud and the New Testament -- the parable of the Laborers in the Vinyard.Finally, Jesus taught largely about Jewish law, focusing on how to obey the laws in the Torah.
his Dady "A rich man from Arithmathea, named Joseph" a disciple of Jesus, got permission to entomb Jesus in a tomb belonging to Joseph, and closed it with a large stone. The priests and pharisees asked Pilate to put a guard on the tomb, he obliged and ordered that the tomb be sealed to prevent the disciples of Jesus from stealing the body and falsely claiming Jesus had risen from the dead.
Much like our cultures today regarding religious beliefs the Pharisees were the fundamentalists of that time period re strict religious beliefs and, basically and simply put 'thought they had cornered the market on righteousness) and took teachings of Jesus whose views often conflicted with the rigid beliefs of the Pharisees. It was the PHARISEES who often challenged Jesus. IT WAS NOT JESUS that was judging the Pharisees! Stoning by the Pharisees (a cultural method of punishment) Jesus met these challenges by exposing the hypocrisy of his Pharisee accusers. When Pharisees brought forth a woman for adultery Jesus' response was, "Those who have not sinned cast the first stone!" Therefore Jesus would NOT view children being stoned to death for being disobedient. Jesus consistently pointed out to the morality of the Pharisees of his time that their morality wasn't as correct as they believed that it was. Check out Matt.12:1-2 Matt.15:1-2 Mark 2:15-16 John 8:1-5 Matt. 12:7 Matt 15:3 - 6 What do I think? Jesus is loving and forgiving and it WAS the PHARASEES that were casting the stones upon children and NOT Jesus. Yes, he found the Pharisees hypocrites as I've mentioned above. It boils down to each culture and their belief system and it's repeated over and over again in religious history. Jesus called the Pharisees hypocrites because they were ready to stone the woman found in adultery, but notthe man with whom she committed the crime. Furthermore, they had lust in their hearts, which Jesus had said was equivalent to committing adultery, yet they chose not to see it. Most likely he was making the point that even the righteous Pharisees picked and choose parts of the Old Testament, since they refused to stone disobedient children. The point was that if that biblical law can be ignored so can the law about stoning adulteresses. The word hypocrite has its origin in the Greek theatre where the actors used to wear stylized masks and effectively be something they were not. The pharisees, who were all indignant at Jesus' disciples not washing their hands, themselves ignored or sidestepped a more important command to honor and respect parents, thus most certainly making themselves hypocrites. The question is not therefore rhetorical but factual. They certainly were hypocrites. This is not the only place this assessment is made of them. Jesus had some very strong words to say in Matthew 23 as well -the whole chapter.=== === === ===
Pharisees did not associate with pagans or those who were not of their group. Jesus freely associated with people regarded by the society of the day as well as the Pharisees as outcasts - taxcollectors, prostitutes, the poor. Jesus taught love and compassion to the oppressed rather than shunning.Jesus challenged the Pharisees on their rigid adherance to the letter of the law rather than to the spirit of its intention. They had added so many small legalistic interpretations to the law that the people were burdened by them. The original intent, designed to uplift man, was bypassed by their slavish adherence to the minutiae. Jesus taught that true righteousness originated from the inward spirit, not by adhering to trifling legalism or outward grand gestures.
The Pharisees were Jews who took Jewish law very seriously.Christians at the time were Jews who followed Jesus and eventually ceased to consider themselves to be Jews..Catholic AnswerThe Pharisees were Jews who took the law very seriously. Our Blessed Lord, Himself, praised their behavior - as far as it went, but pointed out that it was all outward, and one of the primary things that He came to teach was the our hearts must be converted. We are going to be judged on our faith and our works, you cannot be saved with just one or the other, but with both. The Pharisees emphasised the works to the exclusion of faith. The heretics, such as the protestants, emphasised faith to the exclusion of works. Our Blessed Lord very plainly, and often, said that it was both.
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Yes scripture tells us that when Jesus died on the cross at Calvary Mary was at the cross side. Jesus told the disciple to look after her as she is your mother , and they took her home.
Um, calling Jesus a Reform Jew is like calling Jesus a Marxist. It's putting Jesus in a category that didn't exist for almost 2000 years in the future. And, there's another problem. It's not at all clear that Jesus was out on a limb as a reformer: In the context of 2000 years ago, the Jewish world was divided into several parties, the Zealots, rebels against Rome, the Saducees, collaborators with Rome, and the Pharisees, populists who tried to ignore Rome. Within the Pharisees, there were two dominant schools of thought, the school of Rabbi Hillel, who were relatively lenient, and the school of Rabbi Shamai, who was quite strict. Almost all of the teachings of Jesus in the Gospels are in line with the school of Hillel, and the harsh things Jesus says about the Pharisees are typical of what people in the school of Hillel said about Shamai. It's interesting to note that the school of Hillel won the debates, and most of the positions Jesus took on issues are now considered normative Jewish positions.
It appears that a couple of Pharisees named Joseph and Nicodemus buried Jesus in Joseph's newly excavated sepulchre that was conveniently near the site of Jesus' murder: "...Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore, and took the body of Jesus. And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night... then they took the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices... now in the place where He was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre... there laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jew's preparation day; for the sepulchre was nigh at hand." (John 19:38-42)