Jesus and Jewish law

In his 1526 lectures on Jonah Martin Luther taught that Jesus attacked Judaism and “abolished the Law through His Holy Spirit and liberated us from the Law and its power.”[1] More recently megachurch pastor Andy Stanley has quoted New Testament scholar Thomas Schreiner saying that “the entirety of the law has been set aside now that Christ has come.”

Schreiner was saying this was Paul’s view, which we will discuss in a later article. But what about Paul’s rabbi Jesus?  Did he reject Jewish law?

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