Pharisees

Cultural  

1. A group of teachers among the Jews (see also Jews) at the time of Jesus; he frequently rebukes them in the Gospels for their hypocrisy. Jesus says they are like “the blind leading the blind,” or like “whited sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.”

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Example Sentences

The rebuke by the Pharisees who saw this elicited Jesus’ rebuttal that he was “Lord even of the Sabbath” in Matthew 12:8.

From Washington Times

"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites!" says Jesus in Matthew 23.

From Salon

“You see him standing up to the Pharisees. He would have been able to give it right back on the field.”

From New York Times

No one now reads his scholarly disquisitions on the Tower of Babel, or on the Scribes and the Pharisees.

From Literature

Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites!

From Salon