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Cultic Piety and Pharisaism before 70 AD

… rabbis of the Talmud are the heirs and continuators of the Pharisees of the period before 70. Since the ideal of Torah … but none of these documents identifies its author as a Pharisee. We may reliably attribute a work only when a … of his life, ca. A.D. 100, Josephus claimed that he was a Pharisee. He says that he spent the years between age sixteen …

Hostility toward Jesus: Prelude to the Passion

… not come to the feast? Now both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a commandment, that, if any man knew … but of Jesus Himself that is challenged. “A certain Pharisee besought him to dine with him: and he went in, and sat down to meat. And when the Pharisee saw it , he marvelled that he had not first washed …

Hostility toward Jesus

… not come to the feast? Now both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a commandment, that, if any man knew … but of Jesus himself that is challenged. “A certain Pharisee besought him to dine with him: and he went in, and sat down to meat. And when the Pharisee saw it , he marvelled that he had not first washed …

From Cultic Piety to Torah Piety after 70 AD

… us from the rabbinic sources and assigned by them to the Pharisees before 70, hence of “Pharisaic-Rabbinic” Judaism. … the ideal is the same as that of the priesthood. The Pharisee was a layman pretending to be priest and making his … and adherents of the Pharisees, the third was also a Pharisee, but a priest; the fourth was descended from high …

Simon and the Woman Who Anointed Jesus’s Feet

… immediately prior to our story, Jesus responded to the Pharisees’ and lawyers’ criticism that He is “a friend of … him that he would eat with him. And he went into the Pharisee’s house, and sat down [probably reclined [5] on a …

"Torah in the Mouth”: An Introduction to the Rabbinic Oral Law

… to the ancient Jewish-Roman historian Josephus, the Pharisees were one of the most prominent of the Jewish sects … the Pharisees in the Gospels is such that even the word “pharisee” has acquired in English a secondary meaning of …

An Overview of the Sabbath in the Synoptic Gospels

… them probably felt they were doing it even better than the Pharisees.” [8] In Matthew, the Pharisees are shown to make arrangements on the day after the … and guarded (27:62). By this means, Weissargues, the Pharisees are seen to be “inflagrant violation of the Sabbath …

29 January 1843 (Sunday). In Temple

… dig up the root—what drew out the saying out of Jesus? Pharisees & scribes murmurred! this man receives sinners & … you cannot be touched.—I will arise &c claim not be a pharisee or saducee. I claim not to be a son do not let me …

The Sabbath in Rabbinic Judaism

… Sabbath. It also undergirds Jesus’s interactions with the Pharisees in the Sabbath controversies in the New Testament … day. Talking about Sabbath and Halakah: Jesus and the Pharisees Jesus’s discussions on the Sabbath with other Jews … Jesus’s statements against the “scribes and the Pharisees” [16] to mean Jewish legal discourse, especially in …

"What Therefore God Hath Joined Together, Let No Man Put Asunder"

… after he made clear his position on divorce, [3] the Pharisees asked him, “Is it lawful for a man to put away his … on the matter. While Jesus was teaching his disciples, the Pharisees began to deride him, saying they refused to … 16:21–23, Bible appendix). [9] Here he attacked one of the Pharisees’ cherished assumptions—that divorce was not only …