norwegen
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The Sadducees were the higher priesthood and nobility who centered their authority on the temple, true, but they were Roman shills? Can you point to some evidence of that? That's very interesting.What? The justice Jesus meted out in a Jewish temple was sedition against Rome?Can you identify all the times Jesus defied Roman authorities or violated Roman laws?OK. Let me get this straight.
So some dude named Jesus is a bit of a rabble rouser. Often rails against the local and Roman government.
Then one day he gathers up a gang of a dozen thugs and occupies and violently attacks a market while armed with a scourge. And took the coins.
That's called armed robbery in today's parlance.
Today that could get you several years in prison.
Back then, armed robbery could get you crucified.
His problem with the money changers wasn't about the Temple Tax. It was about shortchanging the poor and the pilgrims to the Temple. They were just cheating the poor.
for a "scholar" such as yourself--SURADIE, your statement is EXCRUTIATINGLY IDIOTIC.
There is EXTENSIVE EVIDENCE that the PHARISEES despised the money changers who were lackeys of the ROMAN APPOINTED SADDUCEAN priests-------try to learn a bit of history. The foray into the temple courtyard nails Jesus for what he was-----a ROME HATING PHARISEE. It was an act of SEDITION AGAINST ROME and had nothing to do with short-changing anyone-------well----at least you did not do the usual sunday school bs ---"da high priests were grabbing taxes from da poor"
Have you read the New Testament? Jesus constantly lashed out against the Jews, never against Rome. Jesus came to redeem his people, Israel, and showed little regard for Rome one way or the other. What he hated was the generations of corruption in the temple that his generation of Pharisees and their scribes was perpetuating.
ROFLMAO-------not in the Temple----in the TEMPLE COURT YARD which was opened to gentiles-------Corruption IN THE TEMPLE--by the Pharisees? ------more news for you---the
Temple was CONTROLLED by the SADDUCEES who were Roman shills----actually appointed by the Romans----just as was the EDOMITE
HEROD. The Pharisees despised both. In what sort of Temple corruption could the
PHARISEES actually be involved? Actually
it was the PHARISEE SANHEDRIN (judges) who acquitted Jesus-------they could have killed him even without a trial
Jesus lambasted the Pharisees, of course, who derived their authority from Torah and the Mosaic Law, but he did not lambast the Sadducees. Unless of course that's what he did when he overturned the temple tables. The Sadducees ran the temple schema, after all. And would the Sadducees not have been the object of Christ's derision when he foretold the destruction of their precious house of stone?
You may raise a valid point. Maybe. It certainly appears, though, that all the Jews (except perhaps the Essenes) were the targets of Christ's judgment. The Law and the temple both burned up in the fire.
And according to the New Testament, the Romans were merely God's tool in accomplishing that end.
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