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Were Yeshua's arguments with the Pharisees arguments within Jewish life?

Part of a series: questions that make more sense when the Tanakh and the New Testament are read together.

Yeshua's sharpest words in Matthew 23 land on specific Pharisaic practices, from inside a shared framework of Torah authority — and Paul, decades later, still calls himself a Pharisee in the present tense before a Jewish council (Acts 23:6).

Does the record support “Yeshua against Judaism,” or something narrower?

  • Matthew 23
  • Acts 23:6

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