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How to use pharisee in a sentence

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There is one word to describe that kind of behaviour and that word is pharisee.
Jesus holds out his hand to the pharisee who will decide the issue of his own free-will.
He is a Pharisee exposed, the hypocrite who tells his patients how virtuous it is to be stoical.
Nicodemus, mentioned only in the Gospel of John, was a Pharisee and probably a member of the Sanhedrin, the highest governing body.
This Pharisee was boasting, in other words, of an asceticism beyond the norm.
The Pharisee in this story is again claiming to go above and beyond the duty of the law by tithing a portion of everything he acquires.
The Pharisee prays in a proud boastful way, only seeing what he does right and others do wrong.
It can also be seen in the use of Aramaic words, many discussions about the Mosaic Law or Pharisee traditions, or because of the fact that the book starts with a genealogy.
Read again my parable of the Pharisee and the publican from the second time, and then you will understand my teaching, which has been the same in all times.
Serious and substantial doubts about Paul's former life as a Pharisee, or even any contact with pharisaism on his part, have been raised.
Formerly a Pharisee, Paul confesses what he did as one of those learned elite, using intellectual prowess to co-opt holy law to coerce and repress.
These oral traditions were transmitted by the Pharisee school of thought of ancient Judaism, and were later recorded in written form and expanded upon by the rabbis.
A question wherewith a learned Pharisee thought to pose and puzzle him.
Examples from Classical Literature
He, too, had taken the part of the lowly and oppressed, and against all the established power of priest and pharisee.
I had read, in books by English writers, of the British middle-class Pharisee.
The problem is that Jesus was neither a Sadducee nor a Pharisee, neither a conservative nor a liberal.
The Pharisee is absorbed by his own righteousness, while the tax collector is keenly aware of his failures.
Who but a Pharisee can believe that he is better than another?
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