Bible Verses About The Pharisees

And having seen many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming about his baptism, he said to them, `Brood of vipers! who did shew you to flee from the coming wrath?

`For I say to you, that if your righteousness may not abound above that of the scribes and Pharisees, ye may not enter to the reign of the heavens.

and the Pharisees having seen, said to his disciples, `Wherefore with the tax-gatherers and sinners doth your teacher eat?'

but the Pharisees said, `By the ruler of the demons he doth cast out the demons.'

And the Pharisees having gone forth, held a consultation against him, how they might destroy him,

but the Pharisees having heard, said, `This one doth not cast out demons, except by Beelzeboul, ruler of the demons.'

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

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;

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

And the Pharisees and Sadducees having come, tempting, did question him, to shew to them a sign from the heaven,

and Jesus said to them, `Beware, and take heed of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees;'

how do ye not understand that I did not speak to you of bread--to take heed of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?'

Then they understood that he did not say to take heed of the leaven of the bread, but of the teaching, of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

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?'

And the chief priests and the Pharisees having heard his similes, knew that of them he speaketh,

and seeking to lay hold on him, they feared the multitudes, seeing they were holding him as a prophet.

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

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;

and one of them, a lawyer, did question, tempting him, and saying,

for they bind together burdens heavy and grievous to be borne, and lay upon the shoulders of men, but with their finger they will not move them.

`And all their works they do to be seen by men, and they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the fringes of their garments,

they love also the chief couches in the supper, and the chief seats in the synagogues,

and the salutations in the market-places, and to be called by men, Rabbi, Rabbi.

`And ye--ye may not be called Rabbi, for one is your director--the Christ, and all ye are brethren;

and ye may not call any your father on the earth, for one is your Father, who is in the heavens,