pharisee

Example Sentences

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“What is a pharisee and a publican?” asked Caleb.

From Caleb in the Country by Abbott, Jacob

But you and I, and every pharisee, publican, and sinner in the world, are equally the children of God to begin with.

From Donal Grant, by George MacDonald by MacDonald, George

Gordon chanced to come in that day and light upon Ernest, and the fury into which he worked himself ill beseemed so respectable a pharisee.

From Beatrice Boville and Other Stories by Ouida

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

Be that as it may, Jesus employed this indirect way of shewing the pharisee the incivility of his behaviour to a man of his consequence.

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'