Workers or Scholars

Jesus offered the greatest threats and the least mercy to the scholars He encountered.

He chose a very different sort of people to continue His work when He left the earth – fishermen, a tax collector, a revolutionary, and a couple of strays. Under the influences of Roman mythology, the only leaders we respect are scholars. Perhaps we need more leaders who are witnesses. Not the false, Watchtower Society kind, who are only puppets of their scholars, but people who have actually witnessed something that Jesus has done. Witnesses…

Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures. He also said to them, “This is what is written: the Messiah would suffer and rise from the dead the third day, and repentance for forgiveness of sins would be proclaimed in His name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things. And look, I am sending you what My Father promised. As for you, stay in the city until you are empowered from on high.”
(Luke 24:45-49 Holman Christian Standard Bible ©®)

But Peter and the apostles replied, “We must obey God rather than men. The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you had murdered by hanging Him on a tree. God exalted this man to His right hand as ruler and Savior, to grant repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins. We are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey Him.”
(Acts 5:29-32 Holman Christian Standard Bible ©®)