13 Bible Verses about Characteristics Of Pharisees

(For Sadducees say there is no such thing as a resurrection, and that there is neither angel nor spirit, while Pharisees believe in both.)

"The teachers of the Law and the Pharisees now occupy the chair of Moses.

Then John's disciples came to Jesus, and asked: "Why do we and the Pharisees fast while your disciples do not?"

Now John's disciples and the Pharisees were keeping a fast, and people came and asked Jesus: "Why is it that John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, while yours do not?"

All this was said within hearing of the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, and they began to sneer at Jesus.

(For the Pharisees, and indeed all strict Jews, will not eat without first scrupulously washing their hands, holding in this to the traditions of their ancestors.

The Pharisee noticed, to his astonishment, that Jesus omitted the ceremonial washing before breakfast.

But the Master said to him: "You Pharisees do, it is true, clean the outside of the cup and of the plate, but inside you yourselves are filled with greed and wickedness.

Meanwhile the people had gathered in thousands, so that they trod upon one another, when Jesus, addressing himself to his disciples, began by saying to them: "Be on your guard against the leaven--that is, the hypocrisy--of the Pharisees.

Indeed I tell you that, unless your religion is above that of the Teachers of the Law, and Pharisees, you will never enter the Kingdom of Heaven.

"Two men went up into the Temple Courts to pray. One was a Pharisee and the other a tax-gatherer.

The Pharisee stood forward and began praying to himself in this way--'O God, I thank thee that I am not like other men-- thieves, rogues, adulterers--or even like this tax-gatherer. I fast twice a week, and give a tenth of everything I get to God.'

But the Pharisees and the Students of the Law, having rejected John's baptism, frustrated God's purpose in regard to them.)