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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...