“Our passage today is found right in the middle of this week in Jerusalem.
Having been put in their place by the parable of the wicked tenants, the
elites now send wave upon wave of their most intelligent representatives,
their most adept thinkers to defeat Jesus in his understanding of the law.
Mark chapter 3 tells us they just really wanna kill him, but I think it
shows their pride and arrogance that they should want to intellectually
humiliate him first. As in their day, and perhaps even now, the highest
calling of Jewish wisdom was to be able to know the law and be able to
defend it. So to all onlookers, it becomes no small thing that this
formally uneducated man from the sticks of Galilee, would even engage the
ruling’s lead lawyers, let alone best them at their zenith. But in the next
three or four interactions that’s exactly how things play out. Jesus meets
the Jewish leadership day after day, in unfair argument, and beats them on
their own turf.”

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