Bible Verses About The Pharisees

Their worship of me is useless, because they teach man-made rules as if they were doctrines.'

"You depart from God's command and hold onto human tradition. Indeed,"

Next they said to him, "Yochanan's talmidim are always fasting and davvening, and likewise the talmidim of the P'rushim; but yours go on eating and drinking."

The Torah-teachers and P'rushim watched Yeshua carefully to see if he would heal on Shabbat, so that they could accuse him of something.

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.

When the Parush who had invited him saw what was going on, he said to himself, "If this man were really a prophet, he would have known who is touching him and what sort of woman she is, that she is a sinner."

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

“Woe to you, because you are like unmarked graves, which people walk over without knowing it.”

Meanwhile, as a crowd in the tens of thousands gathered so closely as to trample each other down, Yeshua began to say to his talmidim first, “Guard yourselves from the hametz of the P’rushim, by which I mean their hypocrisy.

The tax-collectors and sinners kept gathering around to hear Yeshua,

and the P’rushim and Torah-teachers kept grumbling. “This fellow,” they said, “welcomes sinners — he even eats with them!”

The P’rushim heard all this, and since they were money-lovers, they ridiculed him.

He said to them, “You people make yourselves look righteous to others, but God knows your hearts; what people regard highly is an abomination before God!

Also, to some who were relying on their own righteousness and looking down on everyone else, he told this parable:

The Parush stood and prayed to himself, ‘O God! I thank you that I am not like the rest of humanity — greedy, dishonest, immoral, or like this tax-collector!

I fast twice a week, I pay tithes on my entire income, . . . ’

Here is Yochanan’s testimony: when the Judeans sent cohanim and L’vi’im from Yerushalayim to ask him, “Who are you?”

Some of those who had been sent were P’rushim.

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

When Yeshua learned that the P’rushim had heard he was making and immersing more talmidim than Yochanan

(although it was not Yeshua himself who immersed but his talmidim),

Yeshua left Y’hudah and set out again for the Galil.

The P’rushim heard the crowd whispering these things about Yeshua; so the head cohanim and the P’rushim sent some of the Temple guards to arrest him.

The guards came back to the head cohanim and the P’rushim, who asked them, “Why didn’t you bring him in?”