Quotes about Pharisees

All their deeds are done for men to see. They broaden their phylacteries and lengthen their tassels.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You pay tithes of mint, dill, and cumin. But you have disregarded the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside, but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of impurity.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous.

The next day, the one after Preparation Day, the chief priests and Pharisees assembled before Pilate.

When the scribes who were Pharisees saw Jesus eating with these people, they asked His disciples, “Why does He eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

So the Pharisees said to Him, “Look, why are they doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath?”

At this, the Pharisees went out and began plotting with the Herodians how they might kill Jesus.

Then the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around Jesus,

Now in holding to the tradition of the elders, the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat until they wash their hands ceremonially.

So the Pharisees and scribes questioned Jesus: “Why do Your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders? Instead, they eat with defiled hands.”

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