Pharisees, attitudes to Jesus Christ (2)

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Pharisees opposed Jesus Christ during his ministry and were among those who brought about his crucifixion. Some Pharisees, however, accepted Christ’s teaching and believed in him.

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Dialogue between Jesus Christ and Pharisees

They demanded a sign to prove his messiahship

Matthew 12:38–42 NKJV

Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered, saying, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from You.” But He answered and said to them, “An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. The men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and indeed a greater than Jonah is here. The queen of the South will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and indeed a greater than Solomon is here.

They questioned him on matters of the law

Matthew 19:3–9 NKJV

The Pharisees also came to Him, testing Him, and saying to Him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for just any reason?” And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.” They said to Him, “Why then did Moses command to give a certificate of divorce, and to put her away?” He said to them, “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery.”

See also Mt 22:15–22; Mt 22:34–40; Jn 8:3–11

They called him Teacher

Mark 12:13–14 NKJV

Then they sent to Him some of the Pharisees and the Herodians, to catch Him in His words. When they had come, they said to Him, “Teacher, we know that You are true, and care about no one; for You do not regard the person of men, but teach the way of God in truth. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?

See also Mt 12:38; Mt 22:34–36; Lk 7:39–40; Lk 19:39; Lk 20:21; Lk 20:28; Jn 3:2; Jn 8:3–4

Jesus Christ questioned them

Matthew 22:41–46 NKJV

While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, saying, “What do you think about the Christ? Whose Son is He?” They said to Him, “The Son of David.” He said to them, “How then does David in the Spirit call Him ‘Lord,’ saying: ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand, Till I make Your enemies Your footstool” ’? If David then calls Him ‘Lord,’ how is He his Son?” And no one was able to answer Him a word, nor from that day on did anyone dare question Him anymore.

See also Mt 12:9–14; Mt 21:24–27; Lk 14:1–6

Social contact between Jesus Christ and Pharisees

Luke 7:36 NKJV

Then one of the Pharisees asked Him to eat with him. And He went to the Pharisee’s house, and sat down to eat.

See also Mk 7:1–2; Lk 11:37; Lk 13:31; Lk 14:1

Jesus Christ criticised the Pharisees

Luke 12:1 NKJV

In the meantime, when an innumerable multitude of people had gathered together, so that they trampled one another, He began to say to His disciples first of all, “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

See also Mt 5:20; Mt 16:5–12; Mt 21:33–45; Mt 23:1–36; Lk 11:37–52; Lk 16:1–15; Lk 18:9–14

The Pharisees opposed Jesus Christ

Luke 11:53–54 NKJV

And as He said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to assail Him vehemently, and to cross-examine Him about many things, lying in wait for Him, and seeking to catch Him in something He might say, that they might accuse Him.

Accusing Jesus Christ of blasphemy:

Matthew 9:2–7 NKJV

Then behold, they brought to Him a paralytic lying on a bed. When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralytic, “Son, be of good cheer; your sins are forgiven you.” And at once some of the scribes said within themselves, “This Man blasphemes!” But Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, “Why do you think evil in your hearts? For which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Arise and walk’? But that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins”—then He said to the paralytic, “Arise, take up your bed, and go to your house.” And he arose and departed to his house.

Matthew 9:10–13 NKJV

Now it happened, as Jesus sat at the table in the house, that behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Him and His disciples. And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to His disciples, “Why does your Teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?” When Jesus heard that, He said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice.’ For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.”

Accusing Jesus Christ of being demon-possessed:

Mt 9:32–34; Mt 12:22–24; Mk 3:22

Accusing Jesus Christ’ disciples of breaking the Sabbath:

Matthew 12:1–2 NKJV

At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. And His disciples were hungry, and began to pluck heads of grain and to eat. And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to Him, “Look, Your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath!”

Opposition to Jesus Christ’s healing on the Sabbath:

Mt 12:9–14; Mk 3:1–6; Lk 6:7; Lk 14:1–6; Jn 9:13–16

Lk 7:36–39; Lk 15:1–2; Lk 19:37–40; Jn 8:13; Jn 9:39–41

The Pharisees were among those who engineered Jesus Christ’s death

Mark 3:6 NKJV

Then the Pharisees went out and immediately plotted with the Herodians against Him, how they might destroy Him.

See also Mt 21:45–46; Mk 12:13; Mt 27:62–64; Jn 7:32–49

Some Pharisees believed in Jesus Christ

Philippians 3:4–11 NKJV

though I also might have confidence in the flesh. If anyone else thinks he may have confidence in the flesh, I more so: circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee; concerning zeal, persecuting the church; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, blameless. But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ. Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith; that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.