Did Jesus respect traditional Jewish law?
This can be argued either way, but the nays seem to have a stronger case: “his disobservance of the purity-code… his sabbath-breaking, his rejection of the lex talionis [eye for an eye], his abrogation of the dietary laws, his teachings against divorce, his interference with a stoning, and his declaration the law and the prophets are now old news, replaced by the preaching of the kingdom of God.