Sunday, June 7Proper 5, Year A, RCL, Track 1 Romans 4:13-25Matthew 9:9-13, 18-26 The Pharisees we read about are not priests. They are highly educated lay people who interpret the Torah and sometimes set precedents for the priestly class. The Pharisees were popular leaders of the Jewish people, yet they were often in conflict with the priests and Sadducees. The Pharisees knew every detail of the Hebrew Bible. (The Law being the first five books.) They knew what you did was ei