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February 4, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — Jesus was not a politician. He never ran for office — He didn’t live in a democracy. He did, however, speak out against both the Roman civil rulers and the Scribes and Pharisees and Sadducees, the religious leaders.
His public ministry began after the arrest of John the Baptist, who also was outspoken publicly against both religious and civil authorities. At one point, John upbraided the area’s ruler, Herod, for claiming that his brother’s wife was his own. In other words, he embarrassed the king. So King Herod had him killed. John was ultimately executed for speaking publicly against government rulers.
The Sadducees and Pharisees whom Jesus so often railed against were allowed by Rome to exercise limited governorship over the Jews. They were civil leaders to a degree. In other words, Jesus called out civil and religious leaders in the strongest terms possible: thieves, hypocrites, sons of the Devil, etc. He challenged the authorities in Jerusalem by violently clearing the Temple with a whip, overturning the moneychangers’ tables. He railed against them for making
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