The
Nazar-
Essenes (Nazarite - Pious Ones) who later became Yeshua’s followers, were called the
Ebionites (Poor Ones) &
Therapeutae (Healers)…
The Essenes believed that Leviticus was compiled during the Babylonian Exile, by the same corrupt Levitical priesthood that brought down the 1st Temple.
The prophets had kept being murdered by the priestly class, for saying God didn’t require sacrifice (Hosea 6:6+9).
Yeshua challenged the Sanhedrin for saying that the murdering of the prophets counted as atoning sacrifices in Matthew 23:27-38, Matthew 15:1-9, Mark 7:1-13, and the Parable of the Wicked Husbandman (Matthew 21:33-46, Mark 12:1-12, Luke 20:9-19).
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