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 ...

Did Jesus love the adulteress and the prostitute? Absolutely. There are two remarkable stories showing how Jesus cared for all types of people. The religious folks called the Pharisees in the time of ...

(Matthew 21:31-32) Now Jesus is saying “unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven.” So are we supposed to keep the Law of ...

Hypocrisy will be exposed, and those who exploit their positions of moral authority for personal gain will face inevitable ...

Show more The word hypocrite gets used with such regularity – and Jesus himself had form using the term. How did the Pharisees became a byword for hypocrisy and is it fair? Was Jesus wrong about ...

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Mary exemplifies the obedient servant of the Lord. The Pharisees are a consistent foil to Jesus' message. The scribes (Scripture copyists), lawyers (experts in the law of God), elders (members of ...

Jesus uses the art of comparison to make a cutting statement about the culture of his day—directing his comments to the scribes and Pharisees: But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like ...

While he was at table in his house, many tax collectors and sinners sat with Jesus and his disciples; for there were many who followed him. Some scribes who were Pharisees saw that he was eating ...