Posted on 12/22/2024 12:14:55 PM PST by DallasBiff
I have generally assumed that Jesus was a Jewish rabbi. After all, He was born in Israel, He was Jewish, and people called Him, “Rabbi.” But that would make Him a professionally trained religious leader. Was He?
Bible teachers generally assume that when the Jewish leaders saw how brilliant the boy Jesus was, they immediately took steps to get Him enrolled in one of their schools to be formally trained as a rabbi. This accounts for why Jesus is not seen or heard from during his formative years. At the completion of His training He emerges and begins His ministry as a full-fledged rabbi – one of the best, most brilliant, and most controversial rabbis of them all.
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I know controversial, mods pull if warranted.
Just an aside, the current pope is an abomination.
“It seems more likely that He claimed to be the True Rabbi just like He said He was the True Vine and the Good Shepherd and the Only Way to the Father. Everyone else was pretending; He actually was what others could only claim to be.”
Can’t disagree with this.
Robert Barron explains that in Hebrew temple ritual, the “High Priest,” who represents the people of Israel making sacrifice before their God in the Holy of Holies, after atonement, comes forth and blesses Israel with sacrificial blood, thus representing the forgiving God of Israel. Thus the priest is the bridge between god and man.
As the Messiah, Jesus is both the man making sacrifice for the forgiveness of the sins of mankind and also the merciful God of Grace and forgiveness. Whether he was an official rabbi, I think the scripture is silent. But he was far more than that, so it doesn’t seem like an important question.
Hebrews 5:5-6 (ESV)
5 So also Christ did not exalt himself to be made a high priest, but was appointed by him who said to him, “You are my Son, today I have begotten you”;
6 as he says also in another place, “You are a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek.”
And then again, what did it mean to be officially trained as a Rabbi then? Particularly with the competing sects of the day. It's not like it was just between the Pharisees and the Sadducees. There were also the Essenes and the Zealots. Some would say the Herodians were a sect (I say it might be best to treat them like more of a political party than a sect).
I bet if someone you were to go back in time and ask one of any of those sects' leaders if leaders in the other sects were Rabbis, you might start a fight.
Amazon Prime has a lot of movies for Christmas- most no charge to watch. This one was very good: “Paul, Apostle of Christ”.
The ending was violent, but changed to being good.
He was as far as the Disciples were concerned. What more could you want?
Teacher or Master. Strong’s Concordance (Greek) 4461.
I think the Bible is clear that Jesus had not formally been trained as a Rabbi. People were amazed at his wisdom, wondering where it came from. Jesus claimed authority based on his Divine Sonship, not on formal training as a Rabbi.
Rabbi simply means teacher. I doubt he needed classes, since he was 100% plugged into Yashua is Yahova, when you see the Son you see the Father.
A rabbit?
Jesus wasn’t a rabbit.
What? A rabbi?
Oh. Never mind.
Merry Christmas.
As I understand it he was, but in those days full manhood was considered to be 30 years old instead of 18 or 21 as it is in most places today and thus he did not become a Rabbi until that age. Yes, Jesus was the greatest teacher (Rabbi) because he was both fully man and fully God at the same time.
“ Amazon Prime has a lot of movies for Christmas- most no charge to watch. This one was very good: “Paul, Apostle of Christ”. The ending was violent, but changed to being good.”
The story of Paul, aka Saul, is among my favorites. Shows how even the worse can find Jesus and be redeemed. I long for the day when my Jewish brothers proclaim that he was and is the one true Messiah and usher in the kingdom of Heaven.
Rabbi is usually held to mean teacher. Apostles and disciples called Him Rabbi. They, I believe, meant it informally as their Teacher. We hear nothing of Chrost in the Gospels for 20 years where I believe he was living and working with his family. And yes, I believe there were siblings.
I was educated by the Jesuits in HS but also by Sisters of Charity NY.
Jesus was Teaching at the age of 12 in
“The Place of Meeting” and the ‘Rabbi’s’
Were Amazed!
At the age of 30 John the Baptist proclaimed “Behold The Lamb of GOD!”.
JESUS has many titles and when He Returns
it will be ‘King of Kings!’
Given that Jesus wrote the book, why would he bother with an education at the feet of those who couldn’t/wouldn’t/didn’t figure out that he was the Messiah?
The rabbit says, "I don't know, ma'am, I guess I must be a Type-O."
**As I understand it he was, but in those days full manhood was considered to be 30 years old...**
There is very little scripture about Jesus after his birth and before his baptism by water and Spirit; just age 12 at the temple schooling the priests and scribes, and his being subject to his mother and adoptive father.
His baptism in water and of Spirit was a birth, for that was when he left behind his old life, and began his calling. First, tempted in the desert, then beginning his great work.
The Israelites left their former life; “...all were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea. And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea.” (1 Cor. 10:1,2). They then went to the wilderness to be tried and tested.
In both cases, what emerged from a desert wilderness was ready to do God’s will
Nyuck nyuck. Badaboom.
Fun.
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