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Lawyers
Open directlyHastings Dictionary of the Bible · 1898
LAWYERS, among the Hebrews, were not pleaders before a court, but expounders of the law in the schools and synagogues; and it is even doubtful whether there was any difference at all between a lawyer and a scribe. Matt 22:35; Luke 10:25; comp. Mark 12:28
Scripture references
Schaff's Dictionary of the Bible · 1880
LAWYERS, among the Hebrews, were not pleaders before a court, but expounders of the law in the schools and synagogues; and it is even doubtful whether there was any difference at all between a lawyer and a scribe. Matt 22:35; Luke 10:25; comp. Mark 12:28