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 what was the hypocrisy of the Pharisees in comparison with the hypocrisy of our time?
The Kingdom of God is Within You / Christianity and Patriotism / Miscellanies|Lev N. Tolstoy
The Pharisees therefore said to him: Thou givest testimony of thyself.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various
The Pharisees have usually been called a sect; they were not so much a sect as a party.
The Cradle of the Christ|Octavius Brooks Frothingham
The scribes and Pharisees, seeing this, said to his disciples, "Does he eat with tax-gatherers and sinners?"
The Children's Bible|Henry A. Sherman
Then you do believe that the scribes and Pharisees are right, Andrew?
Men Called Him Master|Elwyn Allen Smith
Pharisees
[ (far-uh-seez) ]
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.”