It’s the 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time and today’s gospel is a story when our Lord Jesus Christ chastised the Pharisees and the scribes for being strict on their rules, but he calls them ...

Yet, in Mark's Gospel, "when the Pharisees ask Jesus why His followers do not obey the laws on handwashing, Jesus rebukes them and says their hearts are far from God," he said.

Jesus’ willingness to eat with tax collectors was not an endorsement of their profession, any more than his counsel to “render to Caesar” was an endorsement of the Roman Empire.

The problem that Egan and Lancaster have to face is Jesus’ statements in Mark 7, and especially the comment in 7:19, which the English versions put in parenthesis because it interrupts the plot. Jesus ...

That quote is straight from the gospels, just as much canon as Judas and the Pharisees turning Jesus in; the story is what it is. But the villainous depiction of the Jews is not part of the text.

Two millennia ago, religious and secular authorities colluded to kill a man who preached love and practiced what he preached.

And when the Pharisees accused Jesus of breaking the Mosaic Law by not washing before eating, Jesus responded with a quote from Isaiah: “These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts ...

The link between Jesus' gospel and his death is made in various ways. Sometimes the causal chain runs from eating with sinners, to opposition by the Pharisees, to crucifixion,102 while others make ...

Jesus only loses his cool a handful of times in the New Testament (just ask the moneychangers in the Temple), but he unleashes one of his fiercest tirades in Matthew 23 against the Pharisees and other ...

The story concludes with Jesus standing trial before a group of religious leaders who did not believe a (semi)divine messiah was coming to restore the Davidic kingdom. These were the Sadducees. Had it ...