together. They were not prepared to leave the field of combat with their Sadducean rivals. One of them, a lawyer (that is, a scribe who taught the Mosaic Law), asked Him a question of his own. Though the question was not a trap as the previous questions had been, the man was still not coming as a humble disciple, seeking to learn from Jesus. Rather, he was testing Him, seeing how the rabbi from Galilee would measure up to the ideals of the Pharisees. (The lawyer, though aligned with the Pharisees,