For the next several years, we will be having various 250th anniversaries related to the birth of our country through the ...

These were the Sadducees. Had it been the Pharisees presiding over Jesus’ trial, Knohl suggests, “Jesus would not have been condemned to death, convicted, and crucified.” Read our latest issue or ...

Yet, a select few among the Pharisees were open to considering what Jesus taught and even defended his ministry. The Pharisees played a significant role in Jewish society and influenced much of ...

That is the way that the New Testament uses it, especially because the texts juxtapose Jesus with the Pharisees. Who were the Pharisees, and why does that term sting? The Pharisees were one of ...

Not all Pharisees were enemies of the Gospel. Nicodemus humbled himself by coming to Jesus at night to try and understand him. Paul was a self-proclaimed Pharisee who persecuted the church before ...

Even if elements of their philosophy and practice were absorbed into the rabbinic movement that eventually became the mainstream of Judaism, there are no "card-carrying" Pharisees alive today.

He strongly warns his disciples not to follow their teaching. But what exactly was the Pharisees’ problem? Was it that they were too concerned with following God’s law? Or was it something else?

They were rigid… The people didn’t matter to them: The Law mattered to them,” Francis said of Pharisees in a homily in October. The 110-year-old Pontifical Biblical Institute, headed by ...