The Chosen’ season 5 follows Jesus and his disciples’ taxing journey into Jerusalem, which promises to deliver the Messiah to ...

Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to Jesus, ‘Teacher, rebuke your disciples!’ ‘I tell you,’ he replied, ‘if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out’” (Luke 19:38-40).

Caiaphas may have deliberately sought to indict Jesus in a private session to avoid having certain council members—notably, the Pharisees (a Jewish sect, some of whose members were supporters of ...

In John chapter nine, following a long and heated debate with the Jews, Jesus and His disciples are leaving the temple one Sabbath day when they cross paths with a blind beggar. We learn from John’s ...

In Matthew, 22:15-23, we read how the Pharisees challenge Jesus about the lawfulness of paying taxes to the Roman Emperor. Though they were asking about a controversial contemporary political question ...

Evangelical Republicans today are like certain characters in the Bible in Jesus’ day, the very spiritual, very educated, very rich, very law-abiding, and very beautifully clothed Pharisees.

One holds the tablets of the law; two wear phylacteries on their foreheads; another holds a thorn twig before his face, alluding to the Passion; and one points to a thorn on the hem of his robe. The ...

PART of what I do is to try to understand how Jesus makes sense in his own context — the idea being that one does not need to make Judaism look bad in order to make Jesus look good. And, if the end of ...

The heart is a “tricky master.” It has “reasons which reason knows nothing of” (Blaise Pascal). This saying comes to mind as we reflect on today’s Gospel where Jesus responds to the criticism put ...

Matthew and Mark agree in identifying the Pharisees and Herodians as those who challenge Jesus here. Mark implies, and Matthew makes explicit, that it is the ‘disciples’ of the Pharisees, rather than ...