| He is a Pharisee exposed, the hypocrite who tells his patients how virtuous it is to be stoical. |
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| This Pharisee was boasting, in other words, of an asceticism beyond the norm. |
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| Nicodemus, mentioned only in the Gospel of John, was a Pharisee and probably a member of the Sanhedrin, the highest governing body. |
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| The Pharisee in this story is again claiming to go above and beyond the duty of the law by tithing a portion of everything he acquires. |
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| Jesus continues by contrasting the behavior of the sinful woman and the Pharisee. |
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| The Pharisee prays in a proud boastful way, only seeing what he does right and others do wrong. |
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| But instead of keeping her at a decent distance, he distances himself from the Pharisee at whose table he reclines. |
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| The lawyer was a Pharisee. The Pharisees were extreme conservatives who tried to live up to God's Word. |
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| There « Pharisee » becomes a term expressive of typical hypocrisy, the dead letter, legalism, hardness. |
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| Jesus' little treatise to Simon, his Pharisee host, appears to explain this. |
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| Paul was a Jew, the elect of God, and a Pharisee who strictly kept the Law. |
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| He demonstrates his prophetic ability, not by dismissing the woman, but by letting his Pharisee host understand that he can read his thoughts. |
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| To proclaim one's virtue, however humbly, is the prerogative of the Pharisee. |
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| But in the third level of faith, one keeps the word of God to some extent, so he may think he is righteous, like in the case of the Pharisee in the above passage. |
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| The application ought to be clear: since the woman is a sinner, she has been forgiven more and loves Jesus more than those, including the Pharisee, whose lives seem to be proper and blameless. |
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| There is a whiff of the Pharisee about many of these people. |
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| It can also be seen in the use of Aramaic words, many discussions about the Mosaic Law or Pharisee traditions, or because of the fact that the book starts with a genealogy. |
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| Read again my parable of the Pharisee and the publican from the second time, and then you will understand my teaching, which has been the same in all times. |
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| An examination of the articles Jew, Law, Pharisee, Priest, Rabbi, Scribe, Talmud reveals a very scrupulous shying away from any antisemitism by the sharp-tongued author. |
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| Serious and substantial doubts about Paul's former life as a Pharisee, or even any contact with pharisaism on his part, have been raised. |
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| These oral traditions were transmitted by the Pharisee school of thought of ancient Judaism, and were later recorded in written form and expanded upon by the rabbis. |
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| Formerly a Pharisee, Paul confesses what he did as one of those learned elite, using intellectual prowess to co-opt holy law to coerce and repress. |
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| A question wherewith a learned Pharisee thought to pose and puzzle him. |
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