Pharisees

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus.

Now some Pharisees who had been sent.

Many Pharisees and Sadducees came to the baptism of John the Baptist.

The Pharisees believed anyone could become learned in Torah, regardless of their station in life.

Jews see the Pharisees as a democratizing movement.

The Pharisees believed anybody could become learned in Torah, regardless of their station in life.

The Pharisees were good, actually.

The Maccabee king Alexander Jannaeus reportedly crucified 800 Pharisees.

Modern Judaism is derived from the southern form of the Israelite religion, specifically as interpreted by the Pharisees.

Christianity stems largely from criticism of the Pharisees.