Re: Agree!
Whoa!!! The Pharisees’ ‘just simply didn’t know what they had read’ (my words of what your words had implied to me)… in your post: “They had an immense flood of bible study under their belts, but when the Lord Jesus spoke they were unable to receive His words because of their own preconceived notions of what they thought everything * they had read meant*”.
... The Pharisees, most of them- always an exception, HAD NO Assimilation (NO BELIEF in The Ways of God) of a want to do heart/mind (if it cost them) to The Scriptures, Books from the OT that is found in our published book, The Bible or NT and Christ’s Life..Lived in front of them by HIS Personal services to the broken and broken hearted! Because, IMO reading of Scriptures of God’s Concerns- Divinely Authorized from HIS HEART, of HIS words from HIS mouth, HIS Testimony... about their criminal greed in falsely using their offices of public services is easy to understand...read... HIS self-righteous angry with them.
Because they were FALSE PERVERTS looking for their own criminal cons- deceptions over innocent ones in perversions by using “outward noble looking robes” (NO REPENTANCE) but under (back door evil actions by false cons’ organized criminal plans) under a false heart’s religious banner’s CON, as still is, for sure and certain, the cons are being done today in this world’s many public offices of management for the people…under religious and non-religious leaders, leadership… (NO Belief in God's Ways of Truth by a "doer" in personal belief-facts in relationships with another)
…for one example of Scriptures’ Words about the Pharisees.. they criminally planned, planted false witnesses at Christ’s trial and did nothing to stop HIS death (that’s premeditated murder-folks) (and “which killed the prophets” as may be read in verse 31 below).
Nope!!! In my short words of amplified emphasis in this post-for deeper transparency - the Pharisees were NOT wise loving eternal students of Scriptures’ Wisdoms (NO Personal BELIEF in HIM) and why write, say anything suggesting they simply had miss-read the Scriptures by their false scholarly ways – with NOT any advancement, maturing-forward in their knowledge, knowledge from this flesh/spirit body time of learning, for a benefit, large gain in “charity” (1st Cor 13:13) for us by our freewill-- But the many written facts of NOT being in noble actions by the Pharisees, by Scriptures’ Words written by the painful hurts from Christ’s Heart seeing their con actions (witnessing Truth publicly by Christ's Words, Testimony. By/of any substantial personal “good fair neighboring” by the Pharisees in relationship (being a “good neighbor ” with God FIRST and then others in Truth of noble deeds from their heart's embrace in Truth's Wisdom...without greed)(They have no personal Belief, value in God's Ways of HIS Witness of Truths for us to mature with HIM in all good things)
…again for more emphasis… they DID NOT simply miss- understand Scriptures or Christ’s Words, so saying such a claim about the Pharisees' freewill is non-sense ‘ by opPS they just did not understand” …and is dealing-out pure falseness, blindly covering-over The Revelations of Christ concerning the Pharisees’ nature, for one source, The Biblical Voice of a major outflow of readable Text about the Negative Written Information about them or what very soul that has NO BELIEF from Scriptures’ written facts concerning this one topic of what they did as an evil personal “doer” behind the scenes to others from their heart/s. (AGAIN...No Personal BELIEF in God, God's Wisdom, or KINGship, KINGdom in their personal life/s or neighborhood, perhaps...even.. eternal neighborhoods is their freewill choice to NO BELIEF... but perhaps NOT is God's Loving Will " that no one should perish"!)
(sure we, me for sure, all have fallen short of Christ’s Glory to others but we have a repentance mind/heart to God’s Concerns/ HIS broken heart for us and all the family’s peace… in Salvation’s Courtroom Facts… HE will PLEAD our soul’s facts for our case in Heaven and let’s hope all have Faith in Christ’s Power of Redemption by The Redeemer-Christ as we grow/ mature as a good neighbor.)
Blessings to healings (including hearts’/minds’) inChrist’s Name for HIS RIGHTEOUS WORKS and by our heart’s witness of doing for HIM with another, others as we go in life’s works (“ammi” – My people) in this world and fighting under the flag of REPENT and under The GRACE of Salvation and a personal relationship of a change in a heart’s/ mind’s KNOWLEDGE against “lo-ammi” (not My people- Hos. Chapter 1 & 2). …. lucidhunt (think I’m hard talking about the Pharisees- read Christ’s words of HIS relationship time of seeing their actions, personal deeds with others:
Matt 23:1-12
23 Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples, 2 Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat: 3 All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not. 4 For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers. 5 But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments, 6 And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues, 7 And greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi. 8 But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren.9 And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven. 10 Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ.11 But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant.12 And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted. KJV
Matt 23:13-21
13 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. 14 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation. 15 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves. 16 Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor! 17 Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold? 18 And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever sweareth by the gift that is upon it, he is guilty. 19 Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift? 20 Whoso therefore shall swear by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon. KJV
Matt 23:21-24:5
21 And whoso shall swear by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth therein. 22 And he that shall swear by heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon. 23 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. 24 Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel. 25 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess. 26 Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also. 27 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. 28 Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. 29 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, 30 And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. 31 Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets. 32 Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. 33 Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell? 34 Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city: 35 That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar. 36 Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation. 37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! 38 Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. 39 For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord. Matt24: And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple. 2 And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down. 3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? 4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. 5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. KJV