Pharisee

How To Use Pharisee In A Sentence

• In 6 B.C. he proceeded against the Pharisees who had vaticinated that, with the birth of the Messiah, the reign of Herod would come to the end.
• This turns biography into hagiography: the subject isn't a mere artist working through his aesthetic ideas, he's Christ among the doubters and Pharisees.
• Still, the injunction may have been given in view of the character of the individual Pharisees before him, who may have been known as avaricious men; and Christ may have known that to part with their money would be a test of love which they could not stand. The Life of Jesus Christ in Its Historical Connexion and Historical Developement.
• For Pharisees, holiness was achieved, in part, by rigorously keeping the law.
• Pharisees of academic music and so arride the guileless public. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
• The God whom Paul found was not rapt with pleasure when looking on people observing the Law, as the Pharisees would have expected.
• Those that had been old in adulteries, and long fixed in a proud opinion of themselves, were here, even the oldest of them, startled by the word of Christ; even scribes and Pharisees, who were most conceited of themselves, are by the power of Christ's word made to retire with shame. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
• Exhibiting the same obstinance that the Pharisees seemed to favor when dealing with Jesus, his own students apparently need some sign, some miraculous konk on the head in order to see who Jesus is and to hear his saving Word. Archive 2009-02-15
• He calls the legalist Pharisees white washed tombs and sons of the devil. Contend Earnestly
• We read his bitter railings at the Pharisees, and miss the point entirely, because the word Pharisee has become to us a word of reproach. The Profits of Religion, Fifth Edition