PHARISEES

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• Matthew 3:7

  But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, “You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

• Matthew 3:8

  Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance!

• Matthew 3:9

  Don’t think to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father,’ for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.

• Matthew 3:10

  “Even now the ax lies at the root of the trees. Therefore every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire.

• Matthew 6:2

  Therefore when you do merciful deeds, don’t sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.

• Matthew 6:3

  But when you do merciful deeds, don’t let your left hand know what your right hand does,

• Matthew 6:4

  so that your merciful deeds may be in secret, then your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

• Matthew 6:5

  “When you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Most certainly, I tell you, they have received their reward.

• Matthew 6:6

  But you, when you pray, enter into your inner room, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

• Matthew 6:7

  In praying, don’t use vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their much speaking.

• Matthew 6:8

  Therefore don’t be like them, for your Father knows what things you need, before you ask him.

• Matthew 6:16

  “Moreover when you fast, don’t be like the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they disfigure their faces, that they may be seen by men to be fasting. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.

• Matthew 6:17

  But you, when you fast, anoint your head, and wash your face;

• Matthew 6:18

  so that you are not seen by men to be fasting, but by your Father who is in secret, and your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.

• Matthew 9:11

  When the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

• Matthew 9:12

  When Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do.

• Matthew 9:13

  But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

• Matthew 9:14

  Then John’s disciples came to him, saying, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples don’t fast?”

• Matthew 12:2

  But the Pharisees, when they saw it, said to him, “Behold, your disciples do what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath.”

• Matthew 12:3

  But he said to them, “Haven’t you read what David did, when he was hungry, and those who were with him;

• Matthew 12:4

  how he entered into God’s house, and ate the show bread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for those who were with him, but only for the priests?

• Matthew 12:5

  Or have you not read in the law, that on the Sabbath day, the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are guiltless?

• Matthew 12:6

  But I tell you that one greater than the temple is here.

• Matthew 12:7

  But if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the guiltless.

• Matthew 12:8

  For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”

• Matthew 12:38

  Then certain of the scribes and Pharisees answered, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from you.”

• Matthew 12:39

  But he answered them, “An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, but no sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah the prophet.

• Matthew 15:1

  Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem, saying,

• Matthew 15:2

  “Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands when they eat bread.”

• Matthew 15:3

  He answered them, “Why do you also disobey the commandment of God because of your tradition?

• Matthew 15:4

  For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’

• Matthew 15:5

  But you say, ‘Whoever may tell his father or his mother, “Whatever help you might otherwise have gotten from me is a gift devoted to God,”

• Matthew 15:6

  he shall not honor his father or mother.’ You have made the commandment of God void because of your tradition.

• Matthew 15:7

  You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying,

• Matthew 15:8

  ‘These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.

• Matthew 15:9

  And in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrine rules made by men.’”

• Matthew 15:12

  Then the disciples came, and said to him, “Do you know that the Pharisees were offended, when they heard this saying?”

• Matthew 16:1

  The Pharisees and Sadducees came, and testing him, asked him to show them a sign from heaven.

• Matthew 16:2

  But he answered them, “When it is evening, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.’

• Matthew 16:3

  In the morning, ‘It will be foul weather today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ Hypocrites! You know how to discern the appearance of the sky, but you can’t discern the signs of the times!

• Matthew 16:4

  An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and there will be no sign given to it, except the sign of the prophet Jonah.” He left them, and departed.

• Matthew 16:5

  The disciples came to the other side and had forgotten to take bread.

• Matthew 16:6

  Jesus said to them, “Take heed and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

• Matthew 16:7

  They reasoned among themselves, saying, “We brought no bread.”

• Matthew 16:8

  Jesus, perceiving it, said, “Why do you reason among yourselves, you of little faith, ‘because you have brought no bread?’

• Matthew 16:9

  Don’t you yet perceive, neither remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up?

• Matthew 16:10

  Nor the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many baskets you took up?

• Matthew 16:11

  How is it that you don’t perceive that I didn’t speak to you concerning bread? But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

• Matthew 16:12

  Then they understood that he didn’t tell them to beware of the yeast of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

• Matthew 19:3

  Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”

• Matthew 21:33

  “Hear another parable. There was a man who was a master of a household, who planted a vineyard, set a hedge about it, dug a wine press in it, built a tower, leased it out to farmers, and went into another country.

• Matthew 21:34

  When the season for the fruit came near, he sent his servants to the farmers, to receive his fruit.

• Matthew 21:35

  The farmers took his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned another.

• Matthew 21:36

  Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they treated them the same way.

• Matthew 21:37

  But afterward he sent to them his son, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’

• Matthew 21:38

  But the farmers, when they saw the son, said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, and seize his inheritance.’

• Matthew 21:39

  So they took him, and threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him.

• Matthew 21:40

  When therefore the lord of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those farmers?”

• Matthew 21:41

  They told him, “He will miserably destroy those miserable men, and will lease out the vineyard to other farmers, who will give him the fruit in its season.”

• Matthew 21:42

  Jesus said to them, “Did you never read in the Scriptures, ‘The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made the head of the corner. This was from the Lord. It is marvelous in our eyes?’

• Matthew 21:43

  “Therefore I tell you, God’s Kingdom will be taken away from you, and will be given to a nation producing its fruit.

• Matthew 21:44

  He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but on whomever it will fall, it will scatter him as dust.”

• Matthew 21:45

  When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they perceived that he spoke about them.

• Matthew 21:46

  When they sought to seize him, they feared the multitudes, because they considered him to be a prophet.

• Matthew 22:15

  Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might entrap him in his talk.

• Matthew 22:16

  They sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are honest, and teach the way of God in truth, no matter whom you teach, for you aren’t partial to anyone.

• Matthew 22:17

  Tell us therefore, what do you think? Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?”

• Matthew 22:18

  But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, “Why do you test me, you hypocrites?

• Matthew 22:19

  Show me the tax money.” They brought to him a denarius.

• Matthew 22:20

  He asked them, “Whose is this image and inscription?”

• Matthew 22:21

  They said to him, “Caesar’s.” Then he said to them, “Give therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”

• Matthew 22:22

  When they heard it, they marveled, and left him, and went away.

• Matthew 23:2

  saying, “The scribes and the Pharisees sat on Moses’ seat.

• Matthew 23:3

  All things therefore whatever they tell you to observe, observe and do, but don’t do their works; for they say, and don’t do.

• Matthew 23:4

  For they bind heavy burdens that are grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not lift a finger to help them.

• Matthew 23:5

  But all their works they do to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad, enlarge the fringes of their garments,

• Matthew 23:6

  and love the place of honor at feasts, the best seats in the synagogues,

• Matthew 23:7

  the salutations in the marketplaces, and to be called ‘Rabbi, Rabbi’ by men.

• Matthew 23:8

  But don’t you be called ‘Rabbi,’ for one is your teacher, the Christ, and all of you are brothers.

• Matthew 23:9

  Call no man on the earth your father, for one is your Father, he who is in heaven.

• Matthew 23:10

  Neither be called masters, for one is your master, the Christ.

• Matthew 23:11

  But he who is greatest among you will be your servant.

• Matthew 23:12

  Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

• Matthew 23:13

  “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.

• Matthew 23:14

  “But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men; for you don’t enter in yourselves, neither do you allow those who are entering in to enter.

• Matthew 23:15

  Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel around by sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much of a son of Gehenna as yourselves.

• Matthew 23:16

  “Woe to you, you blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated.’

• Matthew 23:17

  You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifies the gold?

• Matthew 23:18

  ‘Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is on it, he is obligated?’

• Matthew 23:19

  You blind fools! For which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?

• Matthew 23:20

  He therefore who swears by the altar, swears by it, and by everything on it.

• Matthew 23:21

  He who swears by the temple, swears by it, and by him who was living in it.

• Matthew 23:22

  He who swears by heaven, swears by the throne of God, and by him who sits on it.

• Matthew 23:23

  “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

• Matthew 23:24

  You blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel!

• Matthew 23:25

  “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and unrighteousness.

• Matthew 23:26

  You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the platter, that its outside may become clean also.

• Matthew 23:27

  “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitened tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.

• Matthew 23:28

  Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

• Matthew 23:29

  “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and decorate the tombs of the righteous,

• Matthew 23:30

  and say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we wouldn’t have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.’

• Matthew 23:31

  Therefore you testify to yourselves that you are children of those who killed the prophets.

• Matthew 23:32

  Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.

• Matthew 23:33

  You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?

• Mark 7:1

  Then the Pharisees and some of the scribes gathered together to him, having come from Jerusalem.

• Mark 7:2

  Now when they saw some of his disciples eating bread with defiled, that is unwashed, hands, they found fault.

• Mark 7:3

  (For the Pharisees and all the Jews, don’t eat unless they wash their hands and forearms, holding to the tradition of the elders.

• Mark 7:4

  They don’t eat when they come from the marketplace unless they bathe themselves, and there are many other things, which they have received to hold to: washings of cups, pitchers, bronze vessels, and couches.)

• Mark 7:5

  The Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why don’t your disciples walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unwashed hands?”

• Mark 7:6

  He answered them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

• Mark 7:7

  But they worship me in vain, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’

• Mark 7:8

  “For you set aside the commandment of God, and hold tightly to the tradition of men — the washing of pitchers and cups, and you do many other such things.”

• Mark 7:9

  He said to them, “Full well do you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition.

• Mark 7:10

  For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother;’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’

• Mark 7:11

  But you say, ‘If a man tells his father or his mother, “Whatever profit you might have received from me is Corban, that is to say, given to God”;’

• Mark 7:12

  then you no longer allow him to do anything for his father or his mother,

• Mark 7:13

  making void the word of God by your tradition, which you have handed down. You do many things like this.”

• Mark 7:14

  He called all the multitude to himself, and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand.

• Mark 7:15

  There is nothing from outside of the man, that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man.

• Luke 7:30

  But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the counsel of God, not being baptized by him themselves.

• Luke 7:36

  One of the Pharisees invited him to eat with him. He entered into the Pharisee’s house, and sat at the table.

• Luke 11:14

  He was casting out a demon, and it was mute. When the demon had gone out, the mute man spoke; and the multitudes marveled.

• Luke 11:15

  But some of them said, “He casts out demons by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons.”

• Luke 11:16

  Others, testing him, sought from him a sign from heaven.

• Luke 11:17

  But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation. A house divided against itself falls.

• Luke 11:18

  If Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? For you say that I cast out demons by Beelzebul.

• Luke 11:19

  But if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your children cast them out? Therefore will they be your judges.

• Luke 11:20

  But if I by God’s finger cast out demons, then God’s Kingdom has come to you.

• Luke 11:21

  “When the strong man, fully armed, guards his own dwelling, his goods are safe.

• Luke 11:22

  But when someone stronger attacks him and overcomes him, he takes from him his whole armor in which he trusted, and divides his plunder.

• Luke 11:23

  “He that is not with me is against me. He who doesn’t gather with me scatters.

• Luke 11:24

  The unclean spirit, when he has gone out of the man, passes through dry places, seeking rest, and finding none, he says, ‘I will turn back to my house from which I came out.’

• Luke 11:25

  When he returns, he finds it swept and put in order.

• Luke 11:26

  Then he goes, and takes seven other spirits more evil than himself, and they enter in and dwell there. The last state of that man becomes worse than the first.”

• Luke 11:27

  It came to pass, as he said these things, a certain woman out of the multitude lifted up her voice, and said to him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts which nursed you!”

• Luke 11:28

  But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”

• Luke 11:29

  When the multitudes were gathering together to him, he began to say, “This is an evil generation. It seeks after a sign. No sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah, the prophet.

• Luke 11:30

  For even as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so will also the Son of Man be to this generation.

• Luke 11:31

  The Queen of the South will rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and will condemn them: for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, one greater than Solomon is here.

• Luke 11:32

  The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, one greater than Jonah is here.

• Luke 11:33

  “No one, when he has lit a lamp, puts it in a cellar or under a basket, but on a stand, that those who come in may see the light.

• Luke 11:34

  The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore when your eye is good, your whole body is also full of light; but when it is evil, your body also is full of darkness.

• Luke 11:35

  Therefore see whether the light that is in you isn’t darkness.

• Luke 11:36

  If therefore your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, it will be wholly full of light, as when the lamp with its bright shining gives you light.”

• Luke 11:37

  Now as he spoke, a certain Pharisee asked him to dine with him. He went in, and sat at the table.

• Luke 11:38

  When the Pharisee saw it, he marveled that he had not first washed himself before dinner.

• Luke 11:39

  The Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness.

• Luke 11:40

  You foolish ones, didn’t he who made the outside make the inside also?

• Luke 11:41

  But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.

• Luke 11:42

  But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, but you bypass justice and God’s love. You ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

• Luke 11:43

  Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the best seats in the synagogues, and the greetings in the marketplaces.

• Luke 11:44

  Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like hidden graves, and the men who walk over them don’t know it.”

• Luke 11:45

  One of the lawyers answered him, “Teacher, in saying this you insult us also.”

• Luke 11:46

  He said, “Woe to you lawyers also! For you load men with burdens that are difficult to carry, and you yourselves won’t even lift one finger to help carry those burdens.

• Luke 11:47

  Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

• Luke 11:48

  So you testify and consent to the works of your fathers. For they killed them, and you build their tombs.

• Luke 11:49

  Therefore also the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send to them prophets and apostles; and some of them they will kill and persecute,

• Luke 11:50

  that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;

• Luke 11:51

  from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary.’ Yes, I tell you, it will be required of this generation.

• Luke 11:52

  Woe to you lawyers! For you took away the key of knowledge. You didn’t enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in, you hindered.”

• Luke 11:53

  As he said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be terribly angry, and to draw many things out of him;

• Luke 11:54

  lying in wait for him, and seeking to catch him in something he might say, that they might accuse him.

• Luke 12:1

  Meanwhile, when a multitude of many thousands had gathered together, so much so that they trampled on each other, he began to tell his disciples first of all, “Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

• Luke 14:1

  When he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, they were watching him.

• Luke 15:1

  Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him.

• Luke 15:2

  The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, “This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them.”

• Luke 15:3

  He told them this parable.

• Luke 15:4

  “Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep, and lost one of them, wouldn’t leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one that was lost, until he found it?

• Luke 15:5

  When he has found it, he carries it on his shoulders, rejoicing.

• Luke 15:6

  When he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!’

• Luke 15:7

  I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.

• Luke 15:8

  Or what woman, if she had ten drachma coins, if she lost one drachma coin, wouldn’t light a lamp, sweep the house, and seek diligently until she found it?

• Luke 15:9

  When she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the drachma which I had lost.’

• Luke 18:12

  I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.’

• John 3:1

  Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.

• John 7:48

  Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees?

• Acts 15:5

  But some of the sect of the Pharisees who believed rose up, saying, “It is necessary to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.”

• Acts 22:3

  “I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according to the strict tradition of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, even as you all are today.

• Acts 23:6

  But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, “Men and brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. Concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am being judged!”

• Acts 23:8

  For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, nor angel, nor spirit; but the Pharisees confess all of these.

• Acts 26:5

  having known me from the first, if they are willing to testify, that after the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.