Pharisaic

When you tried to speak up, suggesting calmly but a bit nervously to your Pharisaic brethren that the law doesn't judge someone without a proper hearing, they jumped on you, wondering if perhaps you weren't one of his followers as well.

Rev. Peter M. Wallace: A Good Friday Meditation: Nicodemus In The Shadows Rev. Peter M. Wallace 2011

Judaism as we know it today is probably a direct descendent of Pharisaic Judaism.

Some Frequently Asked Questions addressed to Roman Mysteries author Caroline Lawrence 2010

The book seeks to offer to Jews and Christians the real story of Jesus, a wholly observant, Pharisaic Rabbi who fought Roman paganism and oppression and was killed for it.

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Surrounded by Christians Who Love Israel Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2011

They left the sect and returned to mainstream Judaism, which was now Pharisaic Judaism, the only kind which survived the destruction of the Temple and of Jerusalem.

Amazing Thread v.2.0 2009

When you tried to speak up, suggesting calmly but a bit nervously to your Pharisaic brethren that the law doesn't judge someone without a proper hearing, they jumped on you, wondering if perhaps you weren't one of his followers as well.

Rev. Peter M. Wallace: A Good Friday Meditation: Nicodemus In The Shadows Rev. Peter M. Wallace 2011

However, Jesus was also a man of His times, affected and influenced by the social fabric of a society shaped by the intertwining of Jewish, Pharisaic, and Roman cultures.

God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu … Carlton Pearson 2010

It is true that Jesus indicated to some of His Pharisaic and religious dissenters that looking upon a woman sensually was tantamount to committing adultery.

God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu … Carlton Pearson 2010

The Apostle Paul, a profound and almost Pharisaic Jew himself, had written to the Christian Church in Rome that “all of Israel would be saved.”

God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu … Carlton Pearson 2010

These are the words of the Apostle Paul, a staunch and formerly Pharisaic Jew who was trying to connect his new non-Jewish European Christians to his Jewish religious heritage, which he links inextricably to his Jewish understanding of God: a separate, bad-tempered being who sits in judgment and plays favorites.

God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu … Carlton Pearson 2010

It was Pharisaic separatism, something most religions are guilty of whether identified as such or not.

God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu … Carlton Pearson 2010