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An article by Avram Yehoshua discusses tefillin in detail and suggests:
...Tefillin were an invention of the Pharisees and picked up later by the Rabbis. If God had intended for the Commandment to be taken literally, then all Israel would have been wearing tefillin 1,300 years before the Hasidim came up with the idea....
There's no mention of Yeshua's followers ever putting tefillin on or removing them. There's no Scripture to show that He wore either the head piece or the arm piece. There are plenty of scriptures that show Yeshua praying (Mt. 14:23; Mk. 4:26; Luke 6:12; 9:28, etc.), but tefillin weren't mentioned. And when the Roman soldiers gambled for His clothes (John 19:23), tefillin were not listed among the items they took, even though He had just finished praying when the Jewish officials came for Him (Mt. 26:36ff. 14:32, Lk. 22:39).
Since tefillin are prayer objects, they should at the very least, be used in prayer - and there are no scriptures to support the idea that Yeshua wore them. However, they were worn all day long by the Pharisees to give the impression that they were pious men, constantly praying....
Please read our article about the command to use tefillin "as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads".
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