Bible Verses About Pharisees: Often sought to destroy Christ
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But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.
But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.
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Then the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him, how they might destroy him.
But when they sought to lay hands on him, they feared the multitude, because they took him for a prophet.
Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles.
Then from that day forth they took counsel together for to put him to death.
Now both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a commandment, that, if any man knew where he were, he should shew it, that they might take him.