Pharisees

A lay movement built on keeping the law in the home, the party Paul was trained in, and what they and Jesus actually disagreed about.

The long teaching blocks (the Sermon on the Mount, the parable discourse, the Bread of Life, the Olivet Discourse, the upper room) and Matthew's fivefold pattern named.

Three works Scripture presents as unprecedented — a Jewish leper cleansed, a mute demoniac freed, a man born blind given sight — the crowd's question, the Pharisees' verdict, and the historical…

Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes, and Zealots: four answers to faithfulness under Rome, and where each one collided with Jesus.