Segment 19: Mounting Controversy
Presenter: Leander E. Keck
After the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70, the leaders of the Pharisees
began to consolidate Judaism in the synagogues. Jewish Christians
emphasized Jesus’ own tensions with the Pharisees in order to find
their identity apart from the synagogues. The church’s tension with
the synagogue was stronger than the tension between the Pharisees and
Jesus had been. Two factors separated Jesus and the Pharisees:
Jesus was concerned about whether an act was right or just, not whether
a law had been violated, which meant going behind the law to
God’s will. And Jesus acted as if he knew what God’s will was.
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