The Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee is the first Sunday of a three-week period prior to the commencement of Great Lent. It marks the beginning of a time of preparation for the spiritual ...

Jewish scholars had taken offense to the term because the Pharisees were one of several Jewish sects during the first century, the time of Jesus. (JTA) — Pete Buttigieg will no longer use the ...

Jesus only loses his cool a handful of times in the New Testament (just ask the moneychangers in the Temple), but he ...

We know instead about other groups or schools or movements or parties.... The most conspicuous of these parties or schools will be the Pharisees. The Pharisees are known to everybody from the New ...

Why did Jesus’ words towards the scribes and pharisees repeatedly sound unsparing in the Bible, whereas He treated the ...

This parable is aimed at those who think they are very righteous and look down on others – that is, the Pharisees. Jews had to pray three times a day and people would go to the temple for ...

The teaching of the Pharisees was that only if someone’s life was in danger was it permitted to give medical assistance on the Sabbath. Jesus taught that the right thing to do is to help someone ...

Library Feasts of the Church Great Lent, Holy Week, and Pascha Triodion Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee “Everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted ...