John 1:24

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John 1:24

And they which were sent were of the Pharisees.

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Now a certain man, a Pharisee named Nicodemus, who was a member of the Jewish ruling council,

Then the Pharisees answered, "You haven't been deceived too, have you?

"But woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You keep locking people out of the kingdom of heaven! For you neither enter nor permit those trying to enter to go in.

However, the Pharisees and the experts in religious law rejected God's purpose for themselves, because they had not been baptized by John.)

But the Lord said to him, "Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness.

The Pharisees (who loved money) heard all this and ridiculed him.

(For the Sadducees say there is no resurrection, or angel, or spirit, but the Pharisees acknowledge them all.)

They know, because they have known me from time past, if they are willing to testify, that according to the strictest party of our religion, I lived as a Pharisee.

I was circumcised on the eighth day, from the people of Israel and the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews. I lived according to the law as a Pharisee.