And there shall be no unrighteousness in their midst all his days, For all will be holy, and their king is the anointed Lord.32 Others saw the only hope of Israel in the conscientious performance of the divine law according to the traditional interpretation of it which had grown up through successive generations. If all Israel kept the whole law perfectly for one day only, it was believed, Messiah would come. Some of these banded themselves together in local fellowship groups to encourage one another