The premise of an "us-versus-Pharisees" dichotomy is further undermined by the Book of Acts, where Pharisees appear as both members and allies of the nascent church.

We see the Pharisees’ derision for King Herod’s hellenization. There was a lot of pressure on the Pharisees! Still, given the outlines of a story that everyone already knows, there’s only so ...

Pencil Preaching for Tuesday, March 15, 2022. “Whoever exalts himself will be humbled” (Matthew 23:12). Is 1:10, 16-20; Mt 23:1-12. The Pharisees hold a unique place in the Gospels as critics ...

We’re all more like the scribes and Pharisees than we’d like to be in this respect. Even when we know the truth about something and proclaim that truth out loud, we still struggle to do what ...

Pope Francis is being urged by experts to take greater care when referring to “hypocritical” Pharisees, a stereotype that fueled centuries of bad blood between Catholics and Jews. Catholic ...

Evangelical Republicans today are like certain characters in the Bible in Jesus’ day, the very spiritual, very educated, very rich, very law-abiding and very beautifully clothed Pharisees.

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 ...

The Pharisees actually seemed to be pretty good at the smaller details of God’s law, such as tithing. Yet despite this, they missed the most important things: They neglected justice, mercy, and ...

A common slam against American Christians by our critics is that, on the whole, we’ve become more akin to modern-day Pharisees than to the Lord. But is that true? Yes, apparently.

New Testament scholars Joseph Sievers and Amy-Jill Levine share a goal: dissect and demolish 2,000 years of Christians’ disparaging portrayals of the Pharisees, the Jewish rabbis of Jesus’s time.