Pharisees
220Give Unto Caesar...
7 Jul 2025
7:29¶ 22
“Then along come the Pharisees and the Herodians. The Pharisees we remember are extreme nationalists but they’re polite about it. Basically they’re cowards. They…”
8:31¶ 24
“Most people weren’t buying that, but still that was there. The Pharisees and the Herodians absolutely hate each other’s guts as they represent different…”
26:03¶ 84
“Ooo, that sounds so hard. Do we become Mormons? Except it’s backward. “She gets seven husbands through all eternity.” They see the absurdity of…”
215The Life of John the Baptizer
21 Apr 2025
8:59¶ 22
“You get to the New Testament and so many things just suddenly are there, like Rome, but also Pharisees and Sadducees. What are these…”
9:44¶ 23
“Unfortunately, over time they lost sight of standing for God’s word and started enshrining human tradition and human interpretation of God’s law, and we’re…”
10:37¶ 25
“The Pharisees and Sadducees hated each other’s guts. You don’t really always see that in reading through the gospels because we’re so used to…”
176The Effects of Sin
15 Jan 2024
8:56¶ 28
“Ooo, you go to the head of the class. I had completely missed that. That’s great. You’re absolutely right. I pointed this out once,…”
10:37¶ 31
“By the way, this makes Satanism – Satan’s worldview – and the Phariseeism we meet in the New Testament more or less the same…”
10:58¶ 32
“Their upright religion led them to crucify God in the flesh. That should tell us something about the religion of the Pharisees. This fits…”
79The Promised Land
16 Aug 2021
7:36¶ 22
“Because in fact they did miss the point and they did turn it into another sort of religion. This was Jesus’ constant conflict with…”
19:25¶ 65
“…the religion of Phariseeism, “Do this and live.”
19:28¶ 66
“They thought because they had the mark of circumcision and they had these promises and they had these dietary laws and they had these…”
51Prophecy and the Ten Commandments
20 Dec 2020
10:15¶ 35
“The Pharisees said, “No, we’re waiting for Messiah. Our only king is God. We have no king but God,” which is not what they…”
10:56¶ 37
“The Pharisees are trying to play God’s law. “We want to be faithful to God’s law,” and of course there’s the terrible irony. No,…”
9:41¶ 34
“The other place in Scripture where this comes up, of course, is with Jesus, when the Pharisees and the Herodians bring the question to…”
41The Metaphysics of Fatherhood
11 Oct 2020
15:31¶ 44
“What the Pharisees are doing here is suggesting that Jesus is a bad father figure, rabbi, leader of these guys, because he’s letting them…”
14:40¶ 42
“What’s going on here is not that the disciples had dirty hands and hadn’t washed, it’s that they had not gone through the ritual…”
15:54¶ 45
“The Pharisees on another occasion had already accused Jesus of being a friend of sinners, a winebibber, and a glutton. Glutton and drunkard is…”
10Myth of Neutrality
8 Mar 2020
7:57¶ 30
“So, Phariseeism – you get to make the rules and judge everybody else. There’s nothing here particularly about phenomenal cosmic power. The issue again…”
8:17¶ 31
“We look in the Old Testament and we see a great deal of pagan magic, and we get to the New Testament and we…”
6:02¶ 23
“In fact, Eve’s addition to the command kind of foreshadows the Pharisees building walls around walls around God’s commands. “We’re not even going to…”