PHARISEES Definition & Meaning

Pharisees

A group of teachers among the Jews (see also Jews ) at the time of Jesus ; he frequently rebukes them in the Gospels for their hypocrisy. Jesus says they are like “the blind leading the blind,” or like “whited sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.”

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Instead, they’ve become some of the shrillest Pharisees in the right’s culture war, especially against anything that resembles embracing LGBTQ+ folks.

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The rebuke by the Pharisees who saw this elicited Jesus’ rebuttal that he was “Lord even of the Sabbath” in Matthew 12:8.

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“But I don’t want to be the Pharisees of this generation, where I turn it into some kind of rule that there’s never an exception for.”

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His words were drowned out by abortion rights supporter Beau Black, who repeatedly screamed: “Hypocrites and Pharisees! Hypocrites and Pharisees!”

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Much like the Pharisees, today's American evangelicals do not represent the faith in any genuine way.

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