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 ...

The Pharisees believed that God accepts and blesses a person based on their personal holiness. Jesus knew His father loved people and didn’t need “their” sacrifices to earn His favour or love.

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 ...