Marks of a Pharisee
Scriptures | Luke 11:37-54 Luke 20:27-40 Luke 20:45-47 Mark 12:18-27 Mark 12:38-40 Mark 7:1-23 Matthew 15:1-20 Matthew 22:23-33 Matthew 23:1-39 |
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Luke Chapter 1137 While Jesus was speaking, a Pharisee asked him to dine with him, so he went in and reclined at table.38 The Pharisee was astonished to see that he did not first wash before dinner.39 And the Lord said to him, āNow you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness.40 You fools! Did not he who made the outside make the inside also?41 But give as alms those things that are within, and behold, everything is clean for you.42 āBut woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, and neglect justice and the love of God. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.43 Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the best seat in the synagogues and greetings in the marketplaces.44 Woe to you! For you are like unmarked graves, and people walk over them without knowing it.ā45 One of the lawyers answered him, āTeacher, in saying these things you insult us also.ā46 And he said, āWoe to you lawyers also! For you load people with burdens hard to bear, and you yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers.47 Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets whom your fathers killed.48 So you are witnesses and you consent to the deeds of your fathers, for they killed them, and you build their tombs.49 Therefore also the Wisdom of God said, āI will send them prophets and apostles, some of whom they will kill and persecute,ā50 so that the blood of all the prophets, shed from the foundation of the world, may be charged against this generation,51 from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, it will be required of this generation.52 Woe to you lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge. You did not enter yourselves, and you hindered those who were entering.ā53 As he went away from there, the scribes and the Pharisees began to press him hard and to provoke him to speak about many things,54 lying in wait for him, to catch him in something he might say. Luke Chapter 2027 There came to him some Sadducees, those who deny that there is a resurrection,28 and they asked him a question, saying, āTeacher, Moses wrote for us that if a manās brother dies, having a wife but no children, the man must take the widow and raise up offspring for his brother.29 Now there were seven brothers. The first took a wife, and died without children.30 And the second31 and the third took her, and likewise all seven left no children and died.32 Afterward the woman also died.33 In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be? For the seven had her as wife.ā34 And Jesus said to them, āThe sons of this age marry and are given in marriage,35 but those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and to the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage,36 for they cannot die anymore, because they are equal to angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.37 But that the dead are raised, even Moses showed, in the passage about the bush, where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.38 Now he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for all live to him.ā39 Then some of the scribes answered, āTeacher, you have spoken well.ā40 For they no longer dared to ask him any question. Luke Chapter 2045 And in the hearing of all the people he said to his disciples,46 āBeware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes, and love greetings in the marketplaces and the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at feasts,47 who devour widowsā houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation.ā Mark Chapter 1218 And Sadducees came to him, who say that there is no resurrection. And they asked him a question, saying,19 āTeacher, Moses wrote for us that if a manās brother dies and leaves a wife, but leaves no child, the man must take the widow and raise up offspring for his brother.20 There were seven brothers; the first took a wife, and when he died left no offspring.21 And the second took her, and died, leaving no offspring. And the third likewise.22 And the seven left no offspring. Last of all the woman also died.23 In the resurrection, when they rise again, whose wife will she be? For the seven had her as wife.ā24 Jesus said to them, āIs this not the reason you are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God?25 For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.26 And as for the dead being raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God spoke to him, saying, āI am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacobā?27 He is not God of the dead, but of the living. You are quite wrong.ā Mark Chapter 1238 And in his teaching he said, āBeware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes and like greetings in the marketplaces39 and have the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at feasts,40 who devour widowsā houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation.ā Mark Chapter 71 Now when the Pharisees gathered to him, with some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem,2 they saw that some of his disciples ate with hands that were defiled, that is, unwashed.3 (For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands, holding to the tradition of the elders,4 and when they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash. And there are many other traditions that they observe, such as the washing of cups and pots and copper vessels and dining couches.)5 And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, āWhy do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?ā6 And he said to them, āWell did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, ā āThis people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me;7 in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.ā8 You leave the commandment of God and hold to the tradition of men.ā9 And he said to them, āYou have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to establish your tradition!10 For Moses said, āHonor your father and your motherā; and, āWhoever reviles father or mother must surely die.ā11 But you say, āIf a man tells his father or his mother, āWhatever you would have gained from me is Corbanā ā(that is, given to God)ā12 then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother,13 thus making void the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And many such things you do.ā14 And he called the people to him again and said to them, āHear me, all of you, and understand:15 There is nothing outside a person that by going into him can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.ā17 And when he had entered the house and left the people, his disciples asked him about the parable.18 And he said to them, āThen are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him,19 since it enters not his heart but his stomach, and is expelled?ā (Thus he declared all foods clean.)20 And he said, āWhat comes out of a person is what defiles him.21 For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,22 coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness.23 All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.ā Matthew Chapter 151 Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem and said,2 āWhy do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat.ā3 He answered them, āAnd why do you break the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition?4 For God commanded, āHonor your father and your mother,āand, āWhoever reviles father or mother must surely die.ā5 But you say, āIf anyone tells his father or his mother, āWhat you would have gained from me is given to God,ā6 he need not honor his father.ā So for the sake of your tradition you have made void the word of God.7 You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, when he said:8 ā āThis people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me;9 in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.ā ā10 And he called the people to him and said to them, āHear and understand:11 it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth; this defiles a person.ā12 Then the disciples came and said to him, āDo you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?ā13 He answered, āEvery plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted up.14 Let them alone; they are blind guides. And if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit.ā15 But Peter said to him, āExplain the parable to us.ā16 And he said, āAre you also still without understanding?17 Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and is expelled?18 But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a person.19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander.20 These are what defile a person. But to eat with unwashed hands does not defile anyone.ā Matthew Chapter 2223 The same day Sadducees came to him, who say that there is no resurrection, and they asked him a question,24 saying, āTeacher, Moses said, āIf a man dies having no children, his brother must marry the widow and raise up children for his brother.ā25 Now there were seven brothers among us. The first married and died, and having no children left his wife to his brother.26 So too the second and third, down to the seventh.27 After them all, the woman died.28 In the resurrection, therefore, of the seven, whose wife will she be? For they all had her.ā29 But Jesus answered them, āYou are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God.30 For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.31 And as for the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was said to you by God:32 āI am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacobā? He is not God of the dead, but of the living.ā33 And when the crowd heard it, they were astonished at his teaching. Matthew Chapter 231 Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples,2 āThe scribes and the Pharisees sit on Mosesā seat,3 so practice and observe whatever they tell youābut not what they do. For they preach, but do not practice.4 They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on peopleās shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to move them with their finger.5 They do all their deeds to be seen by others. For they make their phylacteries broad and their fringes long,6 and they love the place of honor at feasts and the best seats in the synagogues7 and greetings in the marketplaces and being called rabbi by others.8 But you are not to be called rabbi, for you have one teacher, and you are all brothers.9 And call no man your father on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven.10 Neither be called instructors, for you have one instructor, the Christ.11 The greatest among you shall be your servant.12 Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.13 āBut woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in peopleās faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in.15 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel across sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.16 āWoe to you, blind guides, who say, āIf anyone swears by the temple, it is nothing, but if anyone swears by the gold of the temple, he is bound by his oath.ā17 You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold or the temple that has made the gold sacred?18 And you say, āIf anyone swears by the altar, it is nothing, but if anyone swears by the gift that is on the altar, he is bound by his oath.ā19 You blind men! For which is greater, the gift or the altar that makes the gift sacred?20 So whoever swears by the altar swears by it and by everything on it.21 And whoever swears by the temple swears by it and by him who dwells in it.22 And whoever swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and by him who sits upon it.23 āWoe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.24 You blind guides, straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel!25 āWoe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.26 You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and the plate, that the outside also may be clean.27 āWoe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead peopleās bones and all uncleanness.28 So you also outwardly appear righteous to others, but within you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.29 āWoe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous,30 saying, āIf we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.ā31 Thus you witness against yourselves that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets.32 Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.33 You serpents, you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell?34 Therefore I send you prophets and wise men and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from town to town,35 so that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of innocent Abel to the blood of Zechariah the son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.36 Truly, I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation.37 āO Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not!38 See, your house is left to you desolate.39 For I tell you, you will not see me again, until you say, āBlessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.ā ā |
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