Throughout the Gospels, the Pharisees are presented as being antagonistic to Jesus and his message. We generally think of them as vain, conceited and hypocritical; the term ‘pharisee’ today has ...

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 ...

That’s what Jesus asks for, and that’s why he excoriates the Pharisees. It’s not even just that they fell short. It’s that they refused to see the deficit.

Matthew's attitude toward the Pharisees is reflected in the way he tells the story of the death of Jesus. Pontius Pilate is portrayed as a sympathetic figure, and the blame is squarely placed on ...

Speaking Conflict is the final volume in that project (the first two are Speaking Parables and Speaking Jesus). In this book, Buttrick takes as his primary material the controversial stories of the ...

It’s the 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time and today’s gospel is a story when our Lord Jesus Christ chastised the Pharisees and the scribes for being strict on their rules, but he calls them ...

It is the 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time and today's gospel comes from Matt.23: 1-12 about our Lord Jesus Christ denouncing the Pharisees and Scribes, it is also dubbed a "Warning against hypocrisy ...

Jews had to make the case that they belonged; challenging Christianity's myth of a Jesus totally divorced from Judaism — antithetically epitomized by the Pharisees — was a survival strategy.

Matthew's attitude toward the Pharisees is reflected in the way he tells the story of the death of Jesus. Pontius Pilate is portrayed as a sympathetic figure, and the blame is squarely placed on ...