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153:3.6 The [[Pharisees|Pharisaic]] commissioners of the [[Jerusalem]] [[Sanhedrin]] were now almost [[convinced]] that [[Jesus]] must be [[Arrest|apprehended]] on a charge of [[blasphemy]] or on one of flouting the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_law sacred law] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews Jews]; wherefore their efforts to involve him in the discussion of, and possible attack upon, some of the traditions of the elders, or so-called oral laws of the nation. No matter how scarce [[water]] might be, these [[traditionally]] [[enslaved]] Jews would never fail to go through with the required [[ceremonial]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritual_washing_in_Judaism washing of the hands] before every meal. It was their [[belief]] that " it is better to die than to [[transgress]] the commandments of the [[elders]]. " The [[spies]] asked this question because it had been reported that [[Jesus]] had said, " [[Salvation]] is a matter of clean [[hearts]] rather than of clean hands. " But such [[beliefs]], when they once become a part of one's [[religion]], are hard to get away from. Even many years after this day the [[Apostle Peter]] was still held in the [[bondage]] of [[fear]] to many of these [[traditions]] about things clean and unclean, only being finally delivered by [[experiencing]] an [[extraordinary]] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_dream vivid] [[dream]].[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Acts_of_the_Apostles#Acts.10] All of this can the better be [[understood]] when it is recalled that these Jews looked upon eating with unwashed hands in the same light as [[Prostitution|commerce with a harlot]], and both were equally punishable by [[excommunication]].

153:3.6 The [[Pharisees|Pharisaic]] commissioners of the [[Jerusalem]] [[Sanhedrin]] were now almost [[convinced]] that [[Jesus]] must be [[Arrest|apprehended]] on a charge of [[blasphemy]] or on one of flouting the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_law sacred law] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews Jews]; wherefore their efforts to involve him in the discussion of, and possible attack upon, some of the traditions of the elders, or so-called oral laws of the nation. No matter how scarce [[water]] might be, these [[traditionally]] [[enslaved]] Jews would never fail to go through with the required [[ceremonial]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritual_washing_in_Judaism washing of the hands] before every meal. It was their [[belief]] that " it is better to die than to [[transgress]] the commandments of the [[elders]]. " The [[spies]] asked this question because it had been reported that [[Jesus]] had said, " [[Salvation]] is a matter of clean [[hearts]] rather than of clean hands. " But such [[beliefs]], when they once become a part of one's [[religion]], are hard to get away from. Even many years after this day the [[Apostle Peter]] was still held in the [[bondage]] of [[fear]] to many of these [[traditions]] about things clean and unclean, only being finally delivered by [[experiencing]] an [[extraordinary]] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_dream vivid] [[dream]].[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Acts_of_the_Apostles#Acts.10] All of this can the better be [[understood]] when it is recalled that these Jews looked upon eating with unwashed hands in the same light as [[Prostitution|commerce with a harlot]], and both were equally punishable by [[excommunication]].

153:3.7 Thus did [[the Master]] elect to [[discuss]] and [[expose]] the [[folly]] of the whole [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbinic_Judaism rabbinic system of rules and regulations] which was represented by the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mishnah oral law]—the [[traditions]] of the [[elders]], all of which were regarded as more [[sacred]] and more binding upon the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews Jews] than even the teachings of the [[Scriptures]]. And [[Jesus]] [[spoke]] out with less reserve because he knew the hour had come when he could do nothing more to [[prevent]] an open rupture of [[relations]] with these [[religious]] [[leaders]].

153:3.7 Thus did [[the Master]] elect to [[discuss]] and [[expose]] the [[folly]] of the whole [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbinic_Judaism rabbinic system of rules and regulations] which was represented by the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mishnah oral law]—the [[traditions]] of the [[elders]], all of which were regarded as more [[sacred]] and more binding upon the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews Jews] than even the teachings of the [[Scriptures]]. And [[Jesus]] [[spoke]] out with less reserve because he knew the hour had come when he could do nothing more to prevent an open rupture of [[relations]] with these [[religious]] [[leaders]].

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