Pharisees

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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 from the Web for Pharisees

This latter group shortly came to be known as the Pharisees.
Don't Let the Maccabees Win|Matt Lerner|December 4, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Pharisees and scribes are reduced stock villains with caricatured Jewish features.
Jesus: Not a Meek Hippy|David Frum|December 24, 2012|DAILY BEAST
The Hasmonean monarchs who got themselves disliked by the Pharisees must therefore be villains.
The Real Story of Hanukkah|David Frum|December 15, 2012|DAILY BEAST
That family soon fell afoul of the leading religious authorities of their day, the people known to history as the Pharisees.
The Real Story of Hanukkah|David Frum|December 15, 2012|DAILY BEAST

But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This man doth not cast out devils but by Beelzebub, the prince of devils.
Solomon and Solomonic Literature|Moncure Daniel Conway
The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, "Behold, how ye prevail nothing; lo, the world is gone after him."
His Last Week|William E. Barton
Then they began to talk among themselves: what had they done to be thus bidden to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees?
Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline|Jennie M. Drinkwater
Certainly the most cultivated and aristocratic sect--the Sadducees--repudiated it altogether; while the Pharisees held to it.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume I|John Lord
The Pharisees, a famous sect among the Jews, accepted but the five books of Moses, and rejected all the prophets.
Superstition In All Ages (1732)|Jean Meslier

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