Conflict with the authorities: SCRIBES Flashcards
The scribes are the expositors of the law and custodians of the religious demands of God - Jesus threatens them if he claims he can take their role
LUKE 11:52 suggest the scribes have “the key of knowledge” - shows they have power over those who wished to understand how to observe obedience to the law. - Jesus is a threat to them if he claims they alone should not have this power
The way in which Jesus teaches contrasts to the way in which the scribes teach (therefore threatens their authority)
MARK 1:22 the disciples are astounded by the way Jesus teaches because “he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes”.
Jesus’ self-proclaimed authority contrasts with the authority of the scribes
The scribes derive their authority from their ability to trace their interpretation of the law back to moses.
BUT Jesus’ is self-proclaimed?! - He uses I sayings in MATT 5: ‘but i say to you’ - arrogant as well as differentiating himself from the teaching of the scribes
Jesus sees the scribes as failing to make public the truths of the divine to which they supposedly have the key
LUKE 11:32 They erect memorials to the prophets, but fail to notice the prophet in their midst (i.e. Jesus)
