– Member of a Jewish religious group that strictly observed the Law of Moses and followed oral tradition:
Acts 26:5: That I lived according to the strictest sect of our religion, that is, as a Pharisee.
– Jesus received Pharisees, went to their homes and dialogued with them:
Lk 7,36-37 : A Pharisee invited Jesus to eat with him. Jesus entered his house.
Lk 13:31 : On the same day some of the Pharisees came, saying to Jesus: “Leave and go away from here, because Herod wants to kill you”.
Jo 3,1-15 : There was a man among the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, prince of the Jews. This one went to Jesus.
– He reproached them for the excess of legalism, because they taught, but did not act according to what they said:
Mt 5:20 : If your righteousness is not greater than that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
Mt 6,1 : Take care not to do your good works before men, to be seen by them.
Mt 9:14 : Why do we and the Pharisees fast, and not your disciples?
Mt 12,1-2 : The Pharisees said to him: “Behold, your disciples are doing what is forbidden on the Sabbath day”.
Mt 16:1 : They came to Jesus to put him to the test and asked him to show them a miracle from heaven.
Mt 22:15 : The Pharisees then gathered to deliberate […] on how to surprise Jesus.
Mt 23,1-4.13-36 : But do not do as they do, for they say and do not do.
Mk 2:18 : Why do the disciples of John and the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not?
Mk 7 : They perceived that some of his disciples ate bread with unclean hands, that is, without washing them.
Mk 8,11 : The Pharisees came and began to dispute with him and asked him for a sign from heaven, to put him to the test.
Lc 5,21 : They began to think and say to themselves: “Who is this man who speaks blasphemies?”.
Lk 6,6-7 : They watched Jesus to see if he would heal on the Sabbath day. They would then have pretext to accuse him.
Lk 7:30 : The Pharisees, however, and the doctors of the Law, by refusing his baptism, thwarted God’s plan for him.
Lk 11:39 : You Pharisees clean the outside of the vessel and the dish, but your insides are full of robbery and wickedness!
Lk 13:31 : Some of the Pharisees came, saying to Jesus: “Leave and go away from here, because Herod wants to kill you”.
Luke 18:10 : Two men went up to the temple to pray. One was a Pharisee; the other, publican.
– Paul had been a Pharisee and also challenges them by the contradiction between what they said and what they practiced:
Acts 23:6 : I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. Because of my hope in the resurrection of the dead I am judged.
Phil 3 :5: Circumcised on the eighth day, of the race of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew […] Regarding the Law, a Pharisee.
Rom 2:12-29 : For those who hear the Law are not righteous before God, but those who do the Law will be accounted righteous.
