The Talmud

Kitap Tanitim Yazisi Arka Kapak
It appears from the undisguised acknowledgments of the New Testament, that the doctors and
rabbies of the Jews, the Pharisees, and scribes, were the implacable enemies of Jesus of Nazareth,
and that they were the main instruments in effecting his death. The modern Jews consider this fact
as a sufficient apology for their rejection of his claims to the Messiahship. They take it for
granted that the great and learned men of that day were also good men, and that they had valid
reasons for their conduct. They think if Jesus of Nazareth had been the true Messiah, that the
Sanhedrin, the great Jewish council of the time, would have acknowledged him, and conclude
that, as they rejected him, he cannot be the true Messiah. The New Testament, on the contrary,
accounts for their unbelief by plainly telling us, that they were bad men; and that they were
enemies to the Lord Jesus, because he told them the truth, and exposed their hypocrisy. Now,
which of these two representations accords with the truth Were the scribes and Pharisees, those
great advocates of the oral law, , good men or bad men The readers of our first
number will be in some degree qualified to answer this question. Could those be good men who
profanely talked of the lawfulness of killing an unlearned man, and who contemptuously
compared the wives and daughters of the unlearned to vermin and beasts If they could talk
with levity of rending like a fish an unlearned man, one of their own brethren who had never
done them any harm, what were they likely to do with one who exposed their wickedness, and
boldly told them that they by their traditions made void the law of God The very fact, that Jesus
of Nazareth was put to death by such men, is presumptive evidence, that he was a good man, and
v