1. entered the house of the Pharisee: Of the four Gospel writers, only Luke mentions that Jesus received and accepted invitations from Pharisees to dine with them.

2. The Boastful Pharisee

3. As he believed in the resurrection and was “a son of Pharisees,” Paul identified himself as a Pharisee and thus succeeded in setting the Sadducees, who did not believe in the resurrection, against the Pharisees and vice versa. —Ac 22:23–23:10.

4. Illustrations: persistent widow, Pharisee and tax collector

5. In what respect was Paul a Pharisee?

6. Ac 23:6 —Why did Paul call himself a Pharisee?

7. (“I am a Pharisee” study note on Ac 23:6, nwtsty)

8. The Pharisees displayed mock humility when fasting

9. The Pharisees were proud religious teachers.

10. Hyrcanus outlawed the Pharisees’ religious ordinances.

11. One was a highly respected Pharisee, the other a despised tax collector.

12. Chapter 4 Befriend Prodigals and Pharisees 27

13. Jesus was exposing the Pharisees’ narrow, legalistic view.

14. This illustration was evidently directed to the Pharisees.

15. 32 The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things about him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to seize* him.

16. How did the Pharisees act like moral dictators?

17. The first-century Pharisees were another intolerant group.

18. In Luke 7:36-50, Jesus Befriended a Pharisee named Nicodemus, who was very religious

19. The Pharisees classed them as among the “accursed people.”

20. Yet, the Pharisees did not rejoice with him.

21. 21. (a) How did the Pharisees browbeat the people?

22. The Pharisees claimed authority to suspend or abolish Scriptural laws.

23. In what way are the Pharisees like a rotten tree?

24. Both the Essenes and the Pharisees practiced frequent ablutions.

25. How were the Pharisees like an unclean cup or dish?

26. Mark 2:16 speaks of “the scribes of the Pharisees.”

27. ◆ How do the Pharisees try to intimidate the once blind man?

28. The Pharisees, on the other hand, had great influence over the masses.

29. How different Jesus’ attitude toward people was from that of the Pharisees!

30. We are not to publicize such giving, as the Jewish Pharisees did.

31. What advice does Jesus give his listeners concerning the scribes and the Pharisees?

32. After he has healed the man suffering from dropsy, Jesus is still at the house of the Pharisee.

33. The chief priests and the Pharisees, however, take counsel to kill Jesus.

34. (b) What answer does Jesus give the Pharisees who complain about the crowd?

35. If the Pharisee lived near the sea, he and his guests would likely eat freshly caught fish.

36. When he told them what had happened, they took him to the Pharisees.

37. 11 The Pharisees took all the life out of worship of God.

38. 6 A fast is acceptable to Jehovah —but not as the Pharisees performed it.

39. But the day is a Sabbath, and the Pharisees observe what they are doing.

40. The Hasidim split into three groups: the Pharisees, the Sadducees, and the Essenes.

41. The Pharisees held that lowly people, who were not versed in the Law, were “accursed.”

42. Unmoved, the Pharisees asked the officers: “You have not been misled also, have you?

43. So Judas leads a large crowd of chief priests and Pharisees, seeking to find Jesus.

44. On one occasion the Pharisees had accosted Jesus and accused his disciples of violating traditions.

45. (John 7:49) Those Pharisees had no love for the people but plenty of contempt.

46. He adds: “Watch out for the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.” —Matthew 16:11.

47. (Ac 18:3) But, at Jerusalem, he received instruction from the learned Pharisee Gamaliel, suggesting that Paul was from a prominent family.

48. He preached to rich and poor, Pharisees and Samaritans, even tax collectors and sinners.

49. The Qumran sect had traditions different from those of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.

50. What powerful logic did Jesus use to refute a false charge of the Pharisees?

51. After learning of this miracle, the chief priests and Pharisees plotted to kill Jesus and Lazarus.

52. Jesus calls these Pharisees “blind guides, who strain out the gnat but gulp down the camel!”

53. 1 The Pharisees prided themselves on being righteous, and they looked down on the common people.

54. And the Pharisees, being lovers of money, heard all these things and were sneering at Him.

55. By tolerating the murderous actions of the chief priests and Pharisees, the entire nation shared responsibility.

56. Why do the Pharisees enlarge their scripture-containing cases and lengthen the fringes on their garments?

57. Mt . 15 Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they ensnare Him in His words.

58. In the case of the Pharisees, how did a rigid, legalistic viewpoint lead to disloyalty?

59. Pharisees: Some scholars believe the name is derived from the words for “Separated Ones,” or “Separatists.”

60. Bathed (45 Occurrences) Luke 11:38 And when the Pharisee saw it, he marvelled that he had not first Bathed himself before dinner

61. Blind Pharisee, cleanse first the inside of the cup and of the dish, so that the outside of it may also become clean.”

62. The Pharisees and priests openly said: “This crowd that does not know the Law are accursed people.”

63. The context shows that Jesus addressed those words to an antagonistic Jewish religious group called the Pharisees.

64. ▪ Why do the Pharisees enlarge their Scripture-containing cases and the fringes on their garments?

65. THE parents of the once blind beggar are afraid when they are called before the Pharisees.

66. It was because, unlike most Jews, Jesus Christ was not deceived by the Pharisees’ outer appearance.

67. (b) How did the Pharisees show that the holy spirit was not at work in them?

68. Christ Jesus censured the scribes and Pharisees for ‘broadening the scripture-containing cases that they wore as safeguards.’

69. + 2 And both the Pharisees and the scribes kept muttering: “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.”

70. 13 The practice of fasting had grown up amongst the Pharisees as a sign of their superiority.

71. + 26 Blind Pharisee, cleanse first the inside of the cup and of the dish, so that the outside of it may also become clean.

72. And the pharisees and sadducees came to Him, and Captiously asked Him to shew them a sign from heaven

73. Well, the scribes and the Pharisees ‘adroitly set aside God’s commandment’ and judged by their own standards.

74. Recall the time when the Pharisees condemned his disciples for plucking grain and eating it on the Sabbath.

75. On one occasion, disciples of the Pharisees and party followers of Herod approached Jesus with a tax question.

76. The Pharisees, always Captious and controversial, sought to entangle the Savior in a discussion on the subject of divorce

77. Conspired (32 Occurrences) Matthew 12:14 But the Pharisees went out, and Conspired against him, how they might destroy him

78. One man, a respected Pharisee, prayed: “God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.

79. Having no counterargument, the Pharisees accused the man of insolence and threw him out. —John 9:24-34.

80. The Pharisees looked down on others, especially on tax collectors, harlots and others having the reputation of being sinners.