Quotes about Pharisees

We Protestants automatically assume that the Pharisees are the Catholics. They are the self-righteous people who have made Christianity a form of legalistic religion, thereby destroying the free grace of the Gospel. We Protestants are the tax collectors, knowing that we are sinners and that our lives depend upon God's free grace.

Jesus wasn't real loving sometimes. He called the Pharisees vipers, snakes, whitewashed tombs. So, you have to understand the world in which we live is dangerous.

Now the day on which Jesus had made the mud and opened his eyes was a Sabbath.

“The scribes and Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat.

God couldn't care less about protocol. If He did, Jesus would have chosen the Pharisees as His disciples. But that isn't who Jesus honored.

And when the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they themselves gathered together.

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews.

Then some of the scribes and Pharisees said to Him, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from You.”

So the Pharisees said to Him, “You are testifying about Yourself; Your testimony is not valid.”

Moving on from there, Jesus entered their synagogue,

When the Pharisees heard the crowd whispering these things about Jesus, they and the chief priests sent officers to arrest Him.

Then the Pharisees came and began to argue with Jesus, testing Him by demanding from Him a sign from heaven.