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of what it means to be Jewish,
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and that's the last thing that I'll say about this,
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is that Matthew is not presenting a new religion.
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He thinks what we would call Christianity is simply
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the right way to be a Jew.
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What Matthew is presenting is a different sect within Judaism
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from the form of Judaism that's represented by the Pharisees
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or the Sadducees perhaps.
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A lot of people think that the Sadducees may have become
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extinct after the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem
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because the Sadducees were they're power base was the temple,
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but if the Sadducees are still around