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According to the New Testament, Jesus criticized them for their hypocrisy in the way they applied the law, and he also claimed they were making unnecessary additions to the law-- additional rules which they themselves did not adhere to. He said they strove to maintain man-made legalism while omitting the intended spirit of the original laws.

It should be noted, however, that not all scholars agree with this interpretation, as it paints the "high priests" as villains and hypocrites, when historical evidence suggests that many of the religious leaders were quite compassionate and not legalistic. It is also difficult to know whether the conflict presented in the New Testament between Jesus and the High Priests was as contentious as the story says. Certainly, if Jesus claimed to be a deity, or if he called the religious leaders hypocrites, this would have made him unpopular; Jesus was young and had a following, so he certainly might have been seen as a trouble-maker by some of the older establishment leaders. But there are some historians who question whether the story omits certain facts to make a larger religious point. There is no way to know if Jesus really did not like the Jewish religious establishment as a whole because he felt it needed reform, or if he actually only disliked certain members of it. Since he left no writings and since the gospels (which tell this story) were written many years later, there is no way to know.

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