“Then came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem.”
The Pharisees and some of the teachers of the law who had come from Jerusalem gathered around Jesus — the Jerusalem delegation returns, as in chapter 3 when Jerusalem scribes made the Beelzebul accusation. The centralization of the opposition from the capital city communicates the escalating institutional response to Jesus' Galilean ministry. Gathering around Jesus is the posture of interrogation and surveillance, not learning — these are not students seeking wisdom but evaluators seeking grounds for accusation.
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