This is the Bamel Podcast with Marty Solomon. I'm his co-host, Brent Billings. Today we talk about Jesus' critique of rabbinic traditions and surprise he encounters in the region of Phoenicia.

And back from two podcasts ago. We have Dr. Gambino with us again.

Dr. Christopher Gambino.

Hello. Thanks for having me.

Yeah. Good stuff. So Mr. Billings, every verse. So we need to pick up and Matthew 15.

First one.

Then some Pharisees and teachers of the law came to Jesus from Jerusalem and asked, is that important that they came from Jerusalem?

Good question.

Obviously it's important, but what does that say?

I mean, yeah.

Pharisees from...

Pharisees and teachers of the law from Jerusalem are maybe...

I don't know if we can assume this. This is such a good question to start off the podcast.

Were they coming off of like a big council?

Not necessarily, but I'll say, what are we going to do about this, Jesus' guy?

Thanks.

Well, I mean, potentially the thing I'm going to wrestle with is I'm going to assume they live there.

And that means they're not Galilean Pharisees.

Which means they're going to be more apt to align with not the Sadducee worldview, but they're going to be more Judean.

So instead of like backwards charismatic hillbilly that Galileans, they're going to be like...

And that just... it's so hard to make these parallels because that doesn't mean they're not educated when I say that.

The Pharisees and Galilei were unbelievably devoted and unbelievably educated.

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