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To: Salvation

The Pharisees get a bad rap in the NT, but it is important to remember that Jesus was one of them, having been addressed throughout his ministry by the term “rabbi”. The Pharisees were then the only group ordaining rabbis by the rite of semicha, or “the laying on of hands”.

Secondly, the Pharisees developed into the rabbinate of Jewish Orthodoxy, and hence other branches of Judaism to the current day.


3 posted on 10/19/2014 2:53:17 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: onedoug

Just where in the Bible is Jesus ordained a Rabbi?

I know he is addressed as such by the Apostles, but don’t recall anything specific in Scripture other than that.

The Pharisees in this story collaborated with the Herodians, whom they hated, to trick Jesus. (For those who may not know.)


4 posted on 10/19/2014 2:56:29 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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