The story concludes with Jesus standing trial before a group of religious leaders who did not believe a (semi)divine messiah was coming to restore the Davidic kingdom. These were the Sadducees. Had it ...

One aspect of the gospels and of Jesus as a teacher is the power of language to transcend the literal meaning of words that reveal a much deeper realm of metaphor and symbol. If we cannot cross ...

How did it get this bad? The readings have the answer to that question, too. Jesus speaks about the Pharisees, the religious people of his day, and says: “You disregard God’s commandment but ...

The conflict between Jesus and the Pharisees mainly concerned the additions to the written law. In Matthew 12:1, the Pharisees accused the disciples of breaking the Sabbath because they took ears ...

Each episode opens with the disciples sitting around a table with Jesus, eating matzo and maror, singing psalms and, of course, talking about ... from the Pharisees’ adherence to religious ...

We see one such confrontation in Matthew 15:3-9, where Jesus gave these Pharisees an unequivocal rebuke because of their hypocritical behaviour. ‘But woe to you scribes and Pharisees ...

This definition is rooted in Christian tradition and the role the Pharisees played as opponents and betrayers of Jesus in the Gospels. The reality of who the Pharisees were, however, is far more ...

Therefore, the Pharisees are speaking about literally ... chapter 6 that when Jesus began to talk about eating his flesh and drinking his blood (In Hebrew the words for flesh and meat are the ...

AFP PHOTO Pope Francis is being urged by experts to take greater care when referring to "hypocritical" Pharisees ... But for centuries, Jesus's Jewish origins were obscured and the Jews were ...

As several of the contributors document, the process began with the Gospels, which regularly use the Pharisees as negative foils for Jesus and his followers. Sometimes the evangelists anchor this ...