pharisee

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But the attempt was fruitless: he succeeded no better in curing a dropsical person that chanced to be in the house of a pharisee who gave the Saviour a dinner.

From Ecce Homo! A Critical Inquiry into the History of Jesus of Nazareth: Being a Rational Analysis of the Gospels by Holbach, Paul Henry Thiry Baron d'

“Yes; but, grandmother, if the pharisee really was a good man, it wasn't right for him to thank God for it?”

From Caleb in the Country by Abbott, Jacob

The reader may recollect the parable of the pharisee and the publican.

From Awful Disclosures Containing, Also, Many Incidents Never before Published by Monk, Maria

His father was a Jew, a pharisee, and a man of respectable social position.

From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 02 Jewish Heroes and Prophets by Lord, John

Two men went up into the temple to pray: the one a pharisee, and the other a publican.

From The first New Testament printed in English by