Many Pharisees joined the early church. The term “Pharisee” has come to describe an attitude of self-righteousness and even hypocrisy, but we know that many of them came to believe in Jesus.

Their political agenda is based on hate, rejection, condemnation and self-righteousness. The biblical Pharisees, who were the enemies of Jesus, used their political connections to have him killed.

The Pharisees frequently oppose Jesus in the ... He’s not encouraging self-righteous rule keeping, but is showing us how far we fall short. This approach, however, is misguided.

The scribes and the Pharisees of his time drove Jesus to ... They should not have added to those loads with self-righteous insistence on the smaller points of the law. When I hear this legalistic ...

Matthew's Jesus identifies the righteousness of the Pharisees as the high bar which ... Although Christians have often sought to explain away his self-identification as a Pharisee as ironic ...

Barna survey suggests that overcoming self-righteous tendencies is difficult ... that most of today’s Christians are more like the Pharisees than Jesus. Barna surveyed 718 self-identified ...

"Among Christians and in secular society, in different languages the word 'Pharisee' often means 'a self-righteous or hypocritical person.' For many Jews, however, the Pharisees are the founders ...