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Bible Verses About Pharisees

22 verses · 7 aspects

Key Bible Verses

  1. Then certain of the scribes and Pharisees answered, “Rabbi, we want to see a sign from you.”

  2. But he answered them, “An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, but no sign will be given it but the sign of Jonah the prophet.

  3. Then the disciples came, and said to him, “Do you know that the Pharisees were offended, when they heard this saying?”

  4. Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”

  5. Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might entrap him in his talk.

  6. They sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, “Rabbi, we know that you are honest, and teach the way of God in truth, no matter whom you teach, for you aren’t partial to anyone.

  7. Tell us therefore, what do you think? Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?”

  8. But Yeshua perceived their wickedness, and said, “Why do you test me, you hypocrites?

  9. Show me the tax money.” They brought to him a denarius.

  10. He asked them, “Whose is this image and inscription?”

  11. They said to him, “Caesar’s.” Then he said to them, “Give therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.”

  12. When they heard it, they marveled, and left him, and went away.

  13. But the Pharisees and the Torah scholars rejected the counsel of God, not being immersed by him themselves.

  14. One of the Pharisees invited him to eat with him. He entered into the Pharisee’s house, and sat at the table.

  15. Now as he spoke, a certain Pharisee asked him to dine with him. He went in, and sat at the table.

  16. When he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, they were watching him.

  17. Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Judeans.

  18. Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees?

  19. But some of the sect of the Pharisees who believed rose up, saying, “It is necessary to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the Torah of Moses.”

  20. “I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according to the strict tradition of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, even as you all are this day.

  21. But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, “Men and brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. Concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am being judged!”

  22. having known me from the first, if they are willing to testify, that after the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.