The New Sanhedrin

Jesus told his disciples how the Church should handle disagreements

David Allison
4 min readMay 6, 2021
Jesus Before the Sanhedrin by James Tissot (Public Domain)

At Caesarea-Philippi Jesus introduced the concept of his new Church:

And I also say to you that you are Peter,
and
on this rock I will build My church,
and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.
And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven,
and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven,
and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven
(Matthew 16:18–19, emphasis added).

Back home in Capernaum, after the transfiguration experience, the question of greatness in the kingdom came up. See Matthew 18.

The question of greatness in the kingdom came up among the disciples several times as a matter of pride and establishing pecking order, but this time it may have been a legitimate question of how things would work.

Jesus had spoken of Peter, the rock, and keys, and binding and loosing (all metaphors for authority), but had not given detail.

So maybe the disciples brought this up as a matter of clarification. I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt this time, anyway.

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