When tradition replaces truth, even good intentions can lead us away from God’s Word. Jesus warned against man-made rules ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jesus only loses his cool a handful of times in the New Testament (just ask the moneychangers in the Temple), but he unleashes one of his fiercest tirades in Matthew 23 against the Pharisees and other ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...