Jesus’ willingness to eat with tax collectors was not an endorsement of their profession, any more than his counsel to “render to Caesar” was an endorsement of the Roman Empire.

He also saw Jesus' offence as being that he ate with the impure and that this offended the Pharisees.64 By putting the emphasis on purity and eating, he in effect agrees with Jeremias's view that the ...

Fourth, Jesus is the Lord. He is God’s Son, he is both Lord and Savior. We must trust him for forgiveness today and for ...

On one occasion Jesus said, “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence ...

The problem that Egan and Lancaster have to face is Jesus’ statements in Mark 7, and especially the comment in 7:19, which the English versions put in parenthesis because it interrupts the plot. Jesus ...

Throughout the Gospels the Pharisees are presented as being antagonistic to Jesus and his message. We generally think of them as vain and conceited, hypocritical, and the term ‘pharisee’ today has ...

The Pharisees, like most Jews in that period, hoped for the kingdom to be restored by a messiah who bore godlike qualities. The Pharisees may have disputed and rejected Jesus’ self-identification as ...

And we need Jesus. Foul! 15 yards, unsportsmanlike ignorance of religious history! The real Pharisees were not the crimped, hyper-legalistic pedants that the New Testament describes.

John Kilgallen, Was Jesus Right to Eat with Sinners and Tax Collectors?, Biblica, Vol. 93, No. 4 (2012), pp. 590-600 ...

That’s what Jesus asks for, and that’s why he excoriates the Pharisees. It’s not even just that they fell short. It’s that they refused to see the deficit.