For just as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so will the Son of Man be to this generation. Was the baptism of John from heaven, or from men? And He began to speak to them in parables: A man planted a vineyard and put a wall around it, and dug a vat under the wine press and built a tower, and rented it out to vine-growers and went on a journey. Prior to Jesus' condemnation of the religious hypocrites, they had been following Him to test Him and . And there in front of Him was a man suffering from dropsy. Again he sent another group of slaves larger than the first; and they did the same thing to them. The Pharisees are portrayed as nitpicky enforcers of Jewish law who are focused so intently on the letter of the law that they miss the spirit entirely. Now He was also saying to the disciples, There was a rich man who had a manager, and this manager was reported to him as squandering his possessions. The Pharisees and Sadducees came up, and testing Jesus, they asked Him to show them a sign from heaven. But when they persisted in asking Him, He straightened up, and said to them, He who is without sin among you, let him be the first to throw a stone at her. Again He stooped down and wrote on the ground. and had seen that some of His disciples were eating their bread with impure hands, that is, unwashed. Jesus concludes His seven-fold rebuke by telling the religious leaders that they are just like their fathers, who persecuted the prophets of old. 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.. Have you not even read this Scripture:The stone which the builders rejected,This became the chief corner stone; This came about from the Lord,And it is marvelous in our eyes?. While not saying it in so many words, He implied that they were usurpers who were not truly successors of Moses. You foolish people! I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.. But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you shut off the kingdom of heaven from people; for you do not enter in yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in. The Pharisees came out and began to argue with Him, seeking from Him a sign from heaven, to test Him. Beware of believing the words of men as doctrine rather than the Words of God in the Bible.Sandra Sweeny Silver, Slaves Were Lifeless Tools in Ancient Rome, The Exotic Animal Business in Ancient Rome. 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. Which is easier, to say, Your sins have been forgiven you, or to say, Get up and walk? And He said to them, You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts; for that which is highly esteemed among men is detestable in the sight of God. The meaning in Hebrew of the word day always means a 24 hour period of time. 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. 3 And they come unto him, bringing one sick of the . 1:43-45; 8:30; 9:9; 12:1, 12), in order that he be properly understood and not according to erroneous messianic conceptions of the day. But shall we say, From men?they were afraid of the people, for everyone considered John to have been a real prophet. Jonah was in the belly of the whale 4 days. You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the dish, so that the outside of it may become clean also. And Jesus answered and spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath, or not?read more.But they kept silent. I will send my beloved son; perhaps they will respect him., But when the vine-growers saw him, they reasoned with one another, saying, This is the heir; let us kill him so that the inheritance will be ours.. 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 . These will receive greater condemnation., Now when He had spoken, a Pharisee *asked Him to have lunch with him; and He went in, and reclined at the table. Now it was a Sabbath on the day when Jesus made the clay and opened his eyes. But nevertheless, their position must be recognized. But He knew what they were thinking, and He said to the man with the withered hand, Get up and come forward! And he got up and came forward.read more.And Jesus said to them, I ask you, is it lawful to do good or to do harm on the Sabbath, to save a life or to destroy it? After looking around at them all, He said to him, Stretch out your hand! And he did so; and his hand was restored. But He said, Woe to you lawyers as well! And the power of the Lord was with Jesus to heal the sick. So Jesus, in the Beatitudes, trains our eyes, so to speak, to see the face of God in the poor, the mourning, the meek, the persecuted, and all the others whom he names "blessed.". 00:00. 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. Truly I say to you, no sign will be given to this generation., Some Pharisees came to Jesus, testing Him and asking, Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason at all?, And He answered and said, Have you not read that He who created them from the beginning, For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and, So they are no longer two, but one flesh. And they had forgotten to take bread, and did not have more than one loaf in the boat with them. so that upon you may fall the guilt of all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. Show Me the coin used for the poll-tax. And they brought Him a denarius. plotting against Him to catch Him in something He might say. How Jesus Corrected and Confronted His Opponents and Hypocrites 1. 5. Whose likeness and inscription does it have? They said, Caesars. And He said to them, Then render to Caesar the things that are Caesars, and to God the things that are Gods. And they were unable to catch Him in a saying in the presence of the people; and being amazed at His answer, they became silent. 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. All the names for our week days come from Roman and Norse/Anglo-Saxon gods. 'Give Me a drink,' you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water. 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. Some men came carrying a paralyzed man on a mat and tried to take him into the house to lay him before Jesus. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard and put a wall around it and dug a wine press in it, and built a tower, and rented it out to vine-growers and went on a journey. And there was a woman in the city who was a sinner; and when she learned that He was reclining at the table in the Pharisees house, she brought an alabaster vial of perfume, and standing behind Him at His feet, weeping, she began to wet His feet with her tears, and kept wiping them with the hair of her head, and kissing His feet and anointing them with the perfume.read more.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., Now all the tax collectors and the sinners were coming near Him to listen to Him. 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. They were the leading citizens - yet Jesus criticised them and exposed their hypocrisy. That strikes a lot of people as a downer. (Luke 13:10-17). Luke describes the Pharisees as 'lovers of money' (16:14); Josephus writes that they 'simplify their standard of living, making no concession to luxury'. And Jesus answered and spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath, or not?. But Jesus stooped down and with His finger wrote on the ground. It happened that when He went into the house of one of the leaders of the Pharisees on the Sabbath to eat bread, they were watching Him closely. They remained silent. this man came to Jesus by night and said to Him, Rabbi, we know that You have come from God as a teacher; for no one can do these signs that You do unless God is with him.. 00:00. 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. And there in front of Him was a man suffering from dropsy. And Jesus said to them, Watch out and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees. They began to discuss this among themselves, saying, He said that because we did not bring any bread.read more.But Jesus, aware of this, said, You men of little faith, why do you discuss among yourselves that you have no bread? Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you travel around on sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves. They were all struck with astonishment and began glorifying God; and they were filled with fear, saying, We have seen remarkable things today.. Which is easier, to say, Your sins are forgiven, or to say, Get up, and walk? The Pharisees were trapped into silence. And he sent another, and that one they killed; and so with many others, beating some and killing others. By this point, they have gotten tired of his shenanigans and have decided to confront him and challenge the basis on which he has been saying and doing so many subversive things. For you weigh men down with burdens hard to bear, while you yourselves will not even touch the burdens with one of your fingers. And they brought to Him a paralytic lying on a bed. And Jesus said to them, Nor will I tell you by what authority I do these things.. They love the place of honor at banquets and the chief seats in the synagogues. Now when He had spoken, a Pharisee *asked Him to have lunch with him; and He went in, and reclined at the table. But do not be called Rabbi; for One is your Teacher, and you are all brothers. How is it that you do not understand that I did not speak to you concerning bread? And he said to them, He applied clay to my eyes, and I washed, and I see.. Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question: What do you think about the Christ, whose son is He? They *said to Him, The son of David. He *said to them, Then how does David in the Spirit call Him Lord, saying,read more.The Lord said to my Lord,Sit at My right hand,Until I put Your enemies beneath Your feet? They were watching Him to see if He would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse Him. So obey everything they teach you, but don't do as they do. And if you have not been faithful in the use of that which is anothers, who will give you that which is your own? 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. Give an accounting of your management, for you can no longer be manager. The manager said to himself, What shall I do, since my master is taking the management away from me? Woe to you! Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question: What do you think about the Christ, whose son is He? They *said to Him, The son of David.. 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. The owner of the vineyard said, What shall I do? When they could not find a way to do this because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and lowered him on his mat through the tiles into the middle of the crowd, right in front of Jesus. This verse comes from Isaiah 40:3. Both sects of Pharisees and Sadducees, among a host of other Jewish sects, arose around 430 BCE during the. As they were going out, a mute, demon-possessed man was brought to Him. Jesus responds by declaring their ignorance and His response to them creates division between them, the leaders, the citizens and the people. When they sought to seize Him, they feared the people, because they considered Him to be a prophet. They were saying this, testing Him, so that they might have grounds for accusing Him. You cannot serve God and wealth.. And whoever swears by the temple, swears both by the temple and by Him who dwells within it. Jesus Revolution may take place in the 70s, but it's a movie for our times. And Jesus said to them, I will ask you one question, and you answer Me, and then I will tell you by what authority I do these things. For you are like whitewashed tombs which on the outside appear beautiful, but inside they are full of dead mens bones and all uncleanness. 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. 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. The Pharisees and their scribes began grumbling at His disciples, saying, Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?. As a result, our Lord and Savior restored a man's withered hand. 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 give what is inside the dish to the poor, and everything will be clean for you.One of the experts of the law (Scribes who were mostly Pharisees) answered him, Teacher, when you say these things you insult us also. Jesus replied, And you experts of the law, woe to you, because you load people down with burdens they can hardly carry, and you yourselves will not lift one finger to help them.When Jesus left there, the Pharisees and teachers of the law began to oppose him fiercely and to besiege him with questions, waiting to catch him in something he might say. Luke 11:37-53. But woe to you Pharisees! Then a demon-possessed man who was blind and mute was brought to Jesus, and He healed him, so that the mute man spoke and saw. CLICK HERE for article on Jesus Versus Jewish Law, Jesus asked the Pharisees: What do you think I should do with this man? How Many Times Did Jesus Call the Disciples? But afterward he sent his son to them, saying, They will respect my son., But when the vine-growers saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him and seize his inheritance.. Some of the Pharisees even invited Jesus to have dinner with them in their homes: a Pharisee invited (Jesus) to eat with him, so he went in and reclined at the table. One day He was teaching; and there were some Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting there, who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem; and the power of the Lord was present for Him to perform healing. And he who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; but on whomever it falls, it will scatter him like dust. When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard His parables, they understood that He was speaking about them. But when the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered themselves together. 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. Then he asked them, If one of you has a son or an ox that falls into a well on the Sabbath day, will you not immediately pull him out? And they had nothing to say. Luke 14:1-6. The Queen of the South will rise up with this generation at the judgment and will condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, something greater than Solomon is here. 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. One of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. All religious instruction of the young and old was done by Scribes. Woe to you Pharisees! For you weigh men down with burdens hard to bear, while you yourselves will not even touch the burdens with one of your fingers. Bring Me a denarius to look at., They brought one. But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sinsthen He *said to the paralytic, Get up, pick up your bed and go home.. Matthew 4:10 - Then Jesus *said to him, "Go, Satan! Or the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many large baskets full you picked up? Jesus answered and said to them, I will also ask you a question, and you tell Me: Was the baptism of John from heaven or from men?, They reasoned among themselves, saying, If we say, From heaven, He will say, Why did you not believe him?, But if we say, From men, all the people will stone us to death, for they are convinced that John was a prophet.. 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. Therefore when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those vine-growers? They *said to Him, He will bring those wretches to a wretched end, and will rent out the vineyard to other vine-growers who will pay him the proceeds at the proper seasons. Jesus *said to them, Did you never read in the Scriptures,The stone which the builders rejected,This became the chief corner stone;This came about from the Lord,And it is marvelous in our eyes? And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, Why are you thinking evil in your hearts? Do not be called leaders; for One is your Leader, that is, Christ. Email. When they heard it, they began to go out one by one, beginning with the older ones, and He was left alone, and the woman, where she was, in the center of the court. When Jesus saw their faith, he said, Friend, your sins are forgiven. The Pharisees and the teachers of the law began thinking to themselves, Who is this fellow who speaks blasphemy? Then the Pharisees also were asking him again how he received his sight. Which is easier, to say, Your sins have been forgiven you, or to say, Get up and walk? 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. They tie up heavy, cumbersome loads and put them on other peoples shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them. For it is written, 'You shall worship the Lord your God, and serve Him only.'" . 3. Then it happened that as Jesus was reclining at the table in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and were dining with Jesus and His disciples. Why will the same Matthew not document it if Jesus proved to the Pharisees and Teachers of the Law that he is alive? For you have taken away the key of knowledge; you yourselves did not enter, and you hindered those who were entering.. Under these circumstances, after so many thousands of people had gathered together that they were stepping on one another, He began saying to His disciples first of all, Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. And if they said it was not lawful to heal on the Sabbath, they would have no Biblical backing. Listen to another parable. T/F, 5. How Jesus Corrected and Confronted His Opponents and Hypocrites 1. What will the owner of the vineyard do? All the names for our week days come from Roman and Norse/Anglo-Saxon gods. Even though Jesus was a volatile guest, the invitations to dinner kept coming. When the Pharisees saw this, they said to His disciples, Why is your Teacher eating with the tax collectors and sinners? But when Jesus heard this, He said, It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick.read more.But go and learn what this means: I desire compassion, and not sacrifice, for I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners., 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. Departing from there, He went into their synagogue. They were carrying torches, lanterns and weapons. For you clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside they are full of robbery and self-indulgence. 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.. Learn about one of Jesus' confrontations with the Pharisees in Mark 11:27-33 and how it relates back to John the Baptist. Is it lawful to pay a poll-tax to Caesar, or not? Or the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many large baskets full you picked up? Do not call anyone on earth your father; for One is your Father, He who is in heaven. Therefore, whoever swears by the altar, swears both by the altar and by everything on it. As Jesus ministry grew and His antipathy to the religious leaders became apparent, they invited Him to discredit and to entrap Him: One Sabbath when Jesus went to eat in the house of a prominent Pharisee, he was being carefully watched. And there was a woman in the city who was a sinner; and when she learned that He was reclining at the table in the Pharisees house, she brought an alabaster vial of perfume. That is the essence of beatitude. 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?.