The frequent appearance of scribes and Pharisees in the Gospels of the New Testament of the Christian Bible creates an important theme linking the various stories of Jesus of Nazareth, called the ...

arrogant and hypocritical in their behaviour. Jesus exposed and rebuked them because of their hypocrisy. We see one such confrontation in Matthew 15:3-9, where Jesus gave these Pharisees an ...

Giles Fraser and guests hear from Jonathan Aitken, notoriously labelled a hypocrite, to explore how the Pharisees became a byword for hypocrisy. Show more The word hypocrite gets used with such ...