Thematic Bible: A teacher, or master


Thematic Bible



It was not till the third day that they found him in the Temple Courts, sitting among the Teachers, now listening to them, now asking them questions.

And a Teacher of the Law came up to him, and said: "Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go."

On one of those days, when Jesus was teaching, some Pharisees and Doctors of the Law were sitting near by. (They had come from all the villages in Galilee and Judea, and from Jerusalem; and the power of the Lord was upon Jesus, so that he could work cures.)

But Gamaliel, a Pharisee, who was a Doctor of the Law and who was held in universal respect, rose in the Council, and directed that the men should be taken out of court for a little while.

They want to be Teachers of the Law, and yet do not understand either the words they use, or the subjects on which they speak so confidently.