The Lynx-Eyed Critics Who Cannot See Divine Power

Luke presents the Pharisees and doctors assembled from Galilee, Judea, and even Jerusalem itself—a deputation likely dispatched from the Sanhedrim after Christ's conflict recorded in John v. These heresy-hunters positioned themselves apart from the crowd at Peter's house, sitting near enough to observe yet far enough to signal their superiority over the provincial peasants. Their separation was not accidental but deliberate: they were 'too holy to mingle with the mob.'…