The unholy alliance of Sadducees and Pharisees makes up the bulk of the moderate forces which rule the rest of the city. |
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John 18 implies that a Roman tribune ordered part of his cohort to accompany the chief priests and the Pharisees in arresting Jesus on Thursday. |
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For Pharisees, holiness was achieved, in part, by rigorously keeping the law. |
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Why is it that this Gentile woman understands this, when the Pharisees and the disciples do not? |
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The Pharisees shared this commitment to the Law and saw law keeping as a primary religious duty. |
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The Pharisees and Sadducees came looking for a sign and the signs were all around them. |
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The identity of the hirelings is obvious from Jesus' prior encounter with the Pharisees over the man born blind. |
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It means little more than inclusivism, a lowering of the doorstep that the Pharisees had set too high. |
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These guards were surely worldly-wise and shrewd, but they were clearly not educated to the same degree as the scribes and Pharisees. |
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The God whom Paul found was not rapt with pleasure when looking on people observing the Law, as the Pharisees would have expected. |
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The Pharisees and hypocrites in the British press should repent their calumnies. |
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The hypocrites and Pharisees of the Republican Party are exactly the sorts of people Jesus warned us against. |
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In 6 B.C. he proceeded against the Pharisees who had vaticinated that, with the birth of the Messiah, the reign of Herod would come to the end. |
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The scribes had a field day, prematurely writing his epitaph and the Pharisees laughed away any possibility of a resurrection. |
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The Herodians and the Pharisees were archenemies, but they teamed up to trap Jesus. |
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Sadly, like most Pharisees, we are prone to defend and exalt externals and procedures. |
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The Lord faced off the fanatically devout Pharisees with a very strong word. |
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Although John is most severe when he is warning the Pharisees and Sadducees, he calls all to repent, and when they are baptized in the Jordan, to confess their sins. |
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The chief support for the Pharisees came from the lower classes, whether in the country or in the city. |
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But the hypocritical Pharisees made her stand in their presence and pointed fingers at her as if they were judges, about to throw stones at her. |
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By contrast, the Pharisees revered the Torah but further claimed that oral tradition was part and parcel of Mosaic Law. |
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Jesus shocked the Pharisees by breaking bread without washing his hands—and set Christendom on a path of intermittent filthiness. |
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How scandalized were the Pharisees when one time my disciples sat at a table without washing their hands. |
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Now picture the reaction of those Pharisees who regarded themselves as holy, righteous, and pure but who looked down on any who didn't live up to their standards of holiness. |
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Disorder is created when we daydream about spiritual things but do not live them, a bit like the Pharisees of Jesus' time. |
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Apparently, they also believed that Deity didn't intervene too much in the lives of men, as opposed to the predestination of the Pharisees. |
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The Pharisees who preach that poverty is due to laziness and thriftlessness, and the fanatics who attribute it to drink, are for the moment silent. |
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Likewise, as we have mentioned, Jesus compared the Pharisees to sepulchers which are whitewashed on the outside but full of maggots inside. |
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The lawyer was a Pharisee. The Pharisees were extreme conservatives who tried to live up to God's Word. |
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And when the chief priests and Pharisees heard of the miracle, they decided once and for all that Jesus had to die. |
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It was the Pharisees that helped keep Judaism going after the destruction of the second temple in 70 AD, through a compromise with the Romans. |
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The liberty of the Spirit does not go along with the legalism of the Pharisees. |
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Before this power, the Pharisees, the scientists, the scribes, and publicans had different reactions. |
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He openly and boldly spoke for Jesus before the Pharisees who were planning to kill Jesus. |
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Some people incline towards the formalities of faith just like the Pharisees at the time of Jesus. |
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It is simply impossible for Pharisees, and their modern equivalents, to love like Mary Magdalene. |
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A group of Pharisees and teachers of the Law arrive and make a woman stand before Jesus and the crowd. |
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Though the hypocrites and Pharisees that run the Republican party will have a hard time understanding this, Jesus would have understood it immediately. |
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In Part 28, we discussed the rift between the Pharisees and the Sadducees. |
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It is easy to see that Matthew has a preference for the term « Pharisees n which he generalizes excessively. |
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But the picture of Judaism in this period remained above all the religious system and the various religious groups, like Pharisees, Sadducees and Essenes. |
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The Hasmonean monarchs who got themselves disliked by the Pharisees must therefore be villains. |
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Answering the accusations of some incensed Pharisees, Jesus told his disciples that it is not any food that we consume that makes us unclean in God's eyes. |
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It would be better for you to pray that none of you fall into temptation, for the hypocrisy of the scribes and Pharisees still exists in the world. |
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It was above all the chief representatives of the Jerusalem establishment who were committed to this attitude: high priests, Sadducees, Hasmoneans, and probably to some extent also Pharisees. |
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Just as the Pharisees didn't recognize the signs showing that Jesus was the Christ, the Messiah, so our generation doesn't recognize the signs clearly foretelling His imminent return. |
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But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils. |
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Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees. |
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Christ calleth the Pharisees hypocrites, that is to say, simulars, and painted sepulchres. |
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Also, the Sadducees were sometimes the popular party amongst the people, and were, on a number of occasions, pushed out of the Sanhedrin by the Pharisees and their powerful allies. |
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Telemachus, the son of Ulysses, found millions of hypocritical Pharisees in the kingdom of Pluto, they are whitened sepulchres who always fake love towards religion, but who are filled with arrogance and pride. |
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In any case, Jesus, rather than concerning himself with individuals, intends to target the practices of the Pharisees as a spiritual illness that can attack persons and institutions in all ages. |
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But the scribes and Pharisees knew of the Law only as it was written. |
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When the Scribes and Pharisees observed the acts of Jesus and found that they differed from their own, they said that the Doctrine that He preached went against the Law of Moses. |
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He was just a troublemaker in their eyes, as Jesus was to the Pharisees. |
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Jesus probably stood close to the Pharisees. |
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When the Pharisees and the scribes saw Jesus' disciples eating bread with dirty hands, they couldn't have reproved them if they had looked at it from the viewpoint of God's Word. |
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He hits the Pharisees with their own words, because their motive was not their zeal for God's law and His honor, but their self-exaltation and addiction to judge was leading them. |
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At the same time, Jesus gave an answer to the Pharisees and the Scribes. |
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We are not told what the messengers reported back to the Pharisees. |
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And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to catch him in his words. |
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The scribes and Pharisees who didn't know the truth of His Law might have thought that they could throw stones at the woman and, probably at us, too. |
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