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Bible Verses About Pharisees

22 verses · 7 aspects

Key Bible Verses

  1. Then answered certain of the scribes and Pharisees, saying, `Teacher, we will to see a sign from thee.'

  2. And he answering said to them, `A generation, evil and adulterous, doth seek a sign, and a sign shall not be given to it, except the sign of Jonah the prophet;

  3. Then his disciples having come near, said to him, `Hast thou known that the Pharisees, having heard the word, were stumbled?'

  4. And the Pharisees came near to him, tempting him, and saying to him, `Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?'

  5. Then the Pharisees having gone, took counsel how they might ensnare him in words,

  6. and they send to him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, `Teacher, we have known that thou art true, and the way of God in truth thou dost teach, and thou art not caring for any one, for thou dost not look to the face of men;

  7. tell us, therefore, what dost thou think? is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar or not?'

  8. And Jesus having known their wickedness, said, `Why me do ye tempt, hypocrites?

  9. show me the tribute-coin?' and they brought to him a denary;

  10. and he saith to them, `Whose is this image and the inscription?'

  11. they say to him, `Caesar's;' then saith he to them, `Render therefore the things of Caesar to Caesar, and the things of God to God;'

  12. and having heard they wondered, and having left him they went away.

  13. but the Pharisees, and the lawyers, the counsel of God did put away for themselves, not having been baptized by him.

  14. And a certain one of the Pharisees was asking him that he might eat with him, and having gone into the house of the Pharisee he reclined (at meat),

  15. And in his speaking, a certain Pharisee was asking him that he might dine with him, and having gone in, he reclined (at meat),

  16. And it came to pass, on his going into the house of a certain one of the chiefs of the Pharisees, on a sabbath, to eat bread, that they were watching him,

  17. And there was a man of the Pharisees, Nicodemus his name, a ruler of the Jews,

  18. did any one out of the rulers believe in him? or out of the Pharisees?

  19. and there rose up certain of those of the sect of the Pharisees who believed, saying--`It behoveth to circumcise them, to command them also to keep the law of Moses.'

  20. `I, indeed, am a man, a Jew, having been born in Tarsus of Cilicia, and brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, having been taught according to the exactitude of a law of the fathers, being zealous of God, as all ye are to-day.

  21. and Paul having known that the one part are Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, cried out in the sanhedrim, `Men, brethren, I am a Pharisee--son of a Pharisee--concerning hope and rising again of dead men I am judged.'

  22. knowing me before from the first, (if they may be willing to testify,) that after the most exact sect of our worship, I lived a Pharisee;