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Who Were The Pharisees?
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The Pharisees had a foundation in the application of love and kindness. Just as Yeshua was turned into the Christ of Christians named Jesus, the Pharisees have also been misunderstood. As a Jewish believer in Yeshua for forty-plus years, I know this has created a massive amount of anti-semitism. Unfortunately, the majority of this anti-semitism has come from some church teachings. It has been taught by some pastors who would insist that they are not anti-semitic.
How many pastors have preached that Yeshua (Jesus) was a Pharisee? The synagogues were Pharisaical establishments, and Yeshua (Jesus) actively taught in at least five.
Matthew 4:23 Yeshua went all over the Galil teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the Good News of the Kingdom, and healing people from every disease and sickness.
Luke 4:14 Yeshua returned to the Galil in the power of the Spirit, and reports about him spread throughout the countryside. 15 He taught in their synagogues, and everyone respected him.
Luke 4:43 But he said to them, “I must announce the Good News of the Kingdom of God to the other towns too — this is why I was sent.” 44 He also spent time preaching in the synagogues of Y’hudah.
John 18:20 Yeshua answered, “I have spoken quite openly to everyone; I have always taught in a synagogue or in the Temple where all Jews meet together, and I have said nothing in secret.
Luke 4:16 Now when he went to Natzeret, where he had been brought up, on Shabbat, he went to the synagogue as usual. He stood up to read, 17 and he was given the scroll of the prophet Yesha‘yahu. Unrolling the scroll, he found the place where it was written, 18 “The Spirit of Adonai is upon me; therefore he has anointed me to announce Good News to the poor; he has sent me to proclaim freedom for the imprisoned and renewed sight for the blind, to release those who have been crushed, 19 to proclaim a year of the favor of Adonai.” 20 After closing the scroll and returning it to the shammash, he sat down; and the eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed on him. 21 He started to speak to them: “Today, as you heard it read, this passage of the Tanakh was fulfilled!” 22 Everyone was speaking well of him and marvelling that such appealing words were coming from his mouth. They were even asking, “Can this be Yosef’s son?”
John 6:58 So this is the bread that has come down from heaven — it is not like the bread the fathers ate; they’re dead, but whoever eats this bread will live forever!” 59 He said these things as he was teaching in a synagogue in K’far-Nachum.
The term "rabbi" was only a Pharisaical term.
John 3:1 There was a man among the P'rushim (Pharisee) named Nakdimon, who was a ruler of the Judeans. 2 This man came to Yeshua by night and said to him, "Rabbi, we know it is from God that you have come as a teacher; for no one can do these miracles you perform unless God is with him."
Paul said, not that he "was" a Pharisee, but that he said, "I am." A Pharisee wrote a good percentage of the New Testament.