Pharisees

1. 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.”

Example Sentences

As the pharisees ask Christ if they should pay the Romans their tax, he points up at heaven.

From The Guardian

But I can tell you what everyone else thinks about them: They are today's pharisees.

From New York Times

“They think this is all the work of a madman. It doesn’t bother me at all. The pharisees said Christ was casting out devils with the help of Beelzebub, that he was possessed.”

From The Guardian

The archivist’s meticulousness with which this movie was assembled defeats the starving-hysterical-naked urgency of its source material. Could the old Hollywood pharisees have been right?

From Time

Could the old Hollywood pharisees have been right?

From Time