13 Bible Verses about Characteristics Of Pharisees
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For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection; neither angel nor spirit: but the Pharisees acknowledge both. And there arose a great clamor. And the scribes, on the part of the Pharisees, arose and contended, saying:
Then came to him the disciples of John, saying: Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples fast not?
And the disciples of John and of the Pharisees were in the habit of fasting; and they came, and said to him: Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples fast not?
And the Pharisees also, who were lovers of money, heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.
(for the Pharisees and all the Jews eat not, unless they wash their hands carefully, because they hold the tradition of the elders:
And when the Pharisee saw it, he wondered that he had not first immersed himself before dinner.
And the Lord said to him: Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and the plate; but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness.
In the mean time, when myriads of the people had come together, so that they trod one upon another, he began to say to his disciples first of all: Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
For I say to you, That, unless your righteousness excel that of the scribes and Pharisees, you can by no means enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Two men went up into the temple to pray, the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican.
The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself: God, I thank thee that I am not as other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. I fast twice in the week; I give tithes of all that I possess.
but the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the counsel of God in regard to themselves, by not being immersed by him.
