Jesus and the Pharisees

[KathleenGee]

Joseph of Arimethea was a Pharisee, and became bold to confront Pilate to take Christ’s body for proper buriel.

There is the site, www.hebrewcatholic.org, where Jews are finding fulfillment as Jews in the Catholic Church. They have a series on Israel and the Church, and share how they found the Church in its prefigurement in the Old Testament. I read what they realized. I read it and it went over my head…phrases.

Yes, it is invigorating to understand our faith, Scripture, and the Church…the New Israel…from the Jewish ethnic perspective.

They tell us when at Mass, they chuckle at events spoken of in the Gospels, because they can clearly envision the inter-Jewish dynamic, and chuckle again how these insights go over the Gentile heads.

They also believe they are coming now to help the Gentile Church, and believe they can do much good for us.

But as they now are full members of Christ’s body, they want us in return to study our Jewish roots and practices. One, a religious brother, was sharing Jewish devout life, and said the average Jew, can’t remember the context, prayed 2 hours a day.

 

[patrick457]

Joseph of Arimethea was a Pharisee, and became bold to confront Pilate to take Christ’s body for proper buriel.

Not exactly. All we know about Joseph is that he was a wealthy, prominent council member. It was Nicodemus who is explicitly mentioned as being a Pharisee.

 

[KathleenGee]

Thanks Patrick…

I was reading a meditation…at night…Joseph of Arimathea, a possible member of the Sanhedrin…

 

[Archedreamer]

It is my belief that Jesus confronted so much Pharisees exactly because they where the best at His consecrated Nation… the most devout

[BIBLEDRB]Matthew 13:9[/BIBLEDRB]

And Pharisees reneged on Him as they saw better than someone else How tortuous is the way of God. Being so formed on Law, they would be the most refined servants of the Dom… but at the same time the most suffering people. Gentile’s sages - and common people- were at the time deeply distressed (v gr Pilatos) so there was a lot of logic in the Gentile acceptance of Jesus as the Savior. Jews were at the time living some kind of Silver Age, they weren’t? Jewish spreading on Roman Empire did much for Christian spreading.

Two thousands years ago Pharisees reneged on Jesus such as we did when we weren’t Christians, such as we do when we don’t want Hold His Cross, but that time we lose the Nobility of the Kingdom of God. Is not represented Matthew as an Angel? A hero… jew glory aimes would become real.

 

[patrick457]

Thanks Patrick…

I was reading a meditation…at night…Joseph of Arimathea, a possible member of the Sanhedrin…

You’re welcome.
The Sanhedrin (‘council’), while it did have a secure Pharisee presence in it, was at Jesus’ time seem to have been dominated by the aristocratic high priestly families which had ties with the Sadducees. Also we do know that some ordinary priests were Pharisees (most of whom were lay teachers) and that some aristocratic priests were Sadducees, but for the most part priests and Levites, like much of the lay population, did not have a specific party affiliation. So we can’t be sure whether Joseph was affiliated with either of these groups or was just a plain ol’ rich person belonging to neither.