Bible Verses About Pharisees

At this some of the Torah-teachers said, "Rabbi, we want to see a miraculous sign from you."

He replied, "A wicked and adulterous generation asks for a sign? No! None will be given to it but the sign of the prophet Yonah.

The talmidim came to him and said, "Do you know that the P'rushim were offended by what you said?"

Some P'rushim came and tried to trap him by asking, "Is it permitted for a man to divorce his wife on any ground whatever?"

Then the P'rushim went away and put together a plan to trap Yeshua with his own words.

They sent him some of their talmidim and some members of Herod's party. They said, "Rabbi, we know that you tell the truth and really teach what God's way is. You aren't concerned with what other people think about you, since you pay no attention to a person's status.

So tell us your opinion: does Torah permit paying taxes to the Roman Emperor or not?"

Yeshua, however, knowing their malicious intent, said, "You hypocrites! Why are you trying to trap me?

Show me the coin used to pay the tax!" They brought him a denarius;

and he asked them, "Whose name and picture are these?"

"The Emperor's," they replied. Yeshua said to them, "Nu, give the Emperor what belongs to the Emperor. And give to God what belongs to God!"

On hearing this, they were amazed; and they left him and went away.

but the P'rushim and the Torah-teachers, by not letting themselves be immersed by him, nullified for themselves God's plan.

One of the P'rushim invited Yeshua to eat with him, and he went into the home of the Parush and took his place at the table.

As Yeshua spoke, a Parush asked him to eat dinner with him; so he went in and took his place at the table;

One Shabbat Yeshua went to eat in the home of one of the leading P’rushim, and they were watching him closely.

There was a man among the P’rushim, named Nakdimon, who was a ruler of the Judeans.

“Has any of the authorities trusted him? Or any of the P’rushim? No!

But some of those who had come to trust were from the party of the P’rushim; and they stood up and said, “It is necessary to circumcise them and direct them to observe the Torah of Moshe.”

“I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city and trained at the feet of Gamli’el in every detail of the Torah of our forefathers. I was a zealot for God, as all of you are today.

But knowing that one part of the Sanhedrin consisted of Tz’dukim and the other of P’rushim, Sha’ul shouted, “Brothers, I myself am a Parush and the son of P’rushim; and it is concerning the hope of the resurrection of the dead that I am being tried!”

They have known me for a long time; and if they are willing, they can testify that I have followed the strictest party in our religion — that is, I have lived as a Parush.