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You Are Precious in God’s Eyes!The Watchtower—1995 | April 1
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1. How did Jesus’ attitude toward the common people of his day differ from that of the Pharisees?
THEY could see it in his eyes. This man, Jesus, was nothing like their religious leaders; he cared. He felt pity for these people because they “were skinned and thrown about like sheep without a shepherd.” (Matthew 9:36) Their religious leaders were supposed to be loving shepherds representing a loving, merciful God. Instead, they looked down on the common people as mere rabble—and accursed!a (John 7:47-49; compare Ezekiel 34:4.) Clearly, such a warped, unscriptural outlook was a far cry from Jehovah’s view of his people. He had told his nation, Israel: “With a love to time indefinite I have loved you.”—Jeremiah 31:3.
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You Are Precious in God’s Eyes!The Watchtower—1995 | April 1
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a In fact, they dismissed the poor with the contemptuous term “ʽam-ha·ʼaʹrets,” or “people of the land.” According to one scholar, the Pharisees taught that one should neither trust these with valuables, nor trust their testimony, nor entertain them as guests, nor be their guests, nor even buy from them. The religious leaders said that for one’s daughter to marry one of these people would be like exposing her bound and helpless to a beast.
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