Suits: Guilt By Association

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Originally Posted by Aquila

Oh boy...

I never said that Jesus was a Levite. I only explained what I was trying to recall was, it was in reference to the Levites, not Jesus, was my point. Please go back and read it S-L-O-W-L-Y. I was correcting myself.

Now, with regards to Jesus...

Jesus was repeatedly called "rabbi", even by Pharisees (Nicodemus). He was a recognized teacher, although rabbis didn't go through any formal ordination in those times. A rabbi kinda made a name for himself by using his gift of teaching. In some ways the title was bestowed on men more akin to the way the title of "sage" or "guru" is attributed to men informally by their followers today. And clearly Jesus a recognized teacher, for everyone called him "rabbi", and he was indeed permitted to teach in the synagogues and the temple, which means His reputation was established. But it should be noted that Jesus didn't just walk up and take the platform in the temple. He taught in the courts in informal huddles on the temple grounds, as many rabbis did. He wasn't a part of the formal religious institution of His day (scribes, Pharisees, Sadducees, etc.).

So, Jesus wasn't taking just taking authority from the established leaders by teaching informally in the courts of the temple. The question of where His authority came from to do such things was a reference to His casting out the money changers the previous day.

Matthew 21:12-27 (ESV)
Jesus Cleanses the Temple
12 And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. 13 He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you make it a den of robbers.”
14 And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them. 15 But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying out in the temple, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” they were indignant, 16 and they said to him, “Do you hear what these are saying?” And Jesus said to them, “Yes; have you never read,
“‘Out of the mouth of infants and nursing babies
you have prepared praise’?”
17 And leaving them, he went out of the city to Bethany and lodged there.
Jesus Curses the Fig Tree
18 In the morning, as he was returning to the city, he became hungry. 19 And seeing a fig tree by the wayside, he went to it and found nothing on it but only leaves. And he said to it, “May no fruit ever come from you again!” And the fig tree withered at once.
20 When the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, “How did the fig tree wither at once?” 21 And Jesus answered them, “Truly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what has been done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ it will happen. 22 And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith.”
The Authority of Jesus Challenged
23 And when he entered the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came up to him as he was teaching, and said, “By what authority are you doing these things, and who gave you this authority?” 24 Jesus answered them, “I also will ask you one question, and if you tell me the answer, then I also will tell you by what authority I do these things. 25 The baptism of John, from where did it come? From heaven or from man?” And they discussed it among themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say to us, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’ 26 But if we say, ‘From man,’ we are afraid of the crowd, for they all hold that John was a prophet.” 27 So they answered Jesus, “We do not know.” And he said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.

Aquila you did just create a total straw man here you said Jesus was in a rabbinical rotation at the synagogue like Zecharius. Zecharius was a Levite so yes, but Jesus couldn't be He came from the wrong tribe.
And what Nicodemus said is a bad example, because what he said came from faith. Not because Jesus was the newest, hottest rabbi to come up in the ranks down at the synagogue.

As to what you said some is understandable, but Jesus did just come and take authority. And there was nothing they could do about it because it is as it says in Romans 13:1-7 it was given to Him from above.

Just repent of saying He was in the rabbinical rotation down at the synagogue, thats just ridiculous. And if you have no source for that, that's Aquilapedia 4.0 for real.