Many Pharisees joined the early church. The term “Pharisee” has come to describe an attitude of self-righteousness and even hypocrisy, but we know that many of them came to believe in Jesus.

Their political agenda is based on hate, rejection, condemnation and self-righteousness. The biblical Pharisees, who were the enemies of Jesus, used their political connections to have him killed.

One dictionary definition of the word “Pharisee” is “a sanctimonious, self-righteous or hypocritical person.” This definition is rooted in Christian tradition and the role the Pharisees ...

For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners’” (Matthew 9:10-13). The Pharisees were consumed with self-righteousness and refused to show mercy to those who needed it most.

The Pharisees frequently oppose Jesus in the ... He’s not encouraging self-righteous rule keeping, but is showing us how far we fall short. This approach, however, is misguided.

We are reminded of this danger in that gospel episode where Christ’s disciples were accused by the self-righteous Pharisees of eating with unwashed hands. (cfr. Mk 7,1-13) That was when Christ ...

And the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary actually defines Pharisee as “a self-righteous person; a formalist; a hypocrite.” This is grossly unfair. In real life the Pharisees were kind ...

The scribes and the Pharisees of his time drove Jesus to ... They should not have added to those loads with self-righteous insistence on the smaller points of the law. When I hear this legalistic ...

"Those who consider themselves righteous, they can cook in their own ... Later in the reading, Pharisees criticize Jesus for eating with tax collectors and sinners to which he replies, "Those ...