The Jewish people and their spiritual leaders viewed Jesus as a rabbi (Hebrew) or rabbouni (Aramaic),  meaning "my master" in general, or "my teacher" in particular. He often argued
within the framework of rabbinical interpretation of the Law. Yet Jesus could not help but
offend the teachers of the Law, for he was not content to propose his interpretation alongside
theirs but taught the people "as one who had authority, and not as their scribes. In Jesus, the
same Word of God, that had responded on Mount Sinai to give the written Law to Moses, made
itself heard anew on the Mount of the Beatitudes. Jesus did not abolish the Law but fulfilled it
by giving its ultimate interpretation in divine way, "You have heard that it was said to the man
of old -- But I say to you --." With this same divine authority, He disavowed certain human
traditions of the Pharisees that were "making void the word of God."

     In presenting with divine authority the definitive interpretations of the Laws, Jesus found
Himself confronted by certain teachers of the Laws who did not accept His interpretation of the
Law, guaranteed though it was by the divine signs that accompanied it. This was the case
especially with the Sabbath laws, for He recalls often with rabbinical arguments, that the
Sabbath rest is not violated by serving God and neighbour, which His own healings did.