John 1:24

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John 1:22–26 · Berean Standard Bible

22 So they said to him, “Who are you? We need an answer for those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?”

23 John replied in the words of Isaiah the prophet: “I am a voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way for the Lord.’”

24 Then the Pharisees who had been sent

25 asked him, “Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”

26 “I baptize with water,” John replied, “but among you stands One you do not know.

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John 3:1

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews.

John 3:2

He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs You are doing if God were not with him.”

John 7:47

“Have you also been deceived?” replied the Pharisees.

John 7:48

“Have any of the rulers or Pharisees believed in Him?

John 7:49

But this crowd that does not know the law, they are under a curse.”

Matthew 23:13

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let in those who wish to enter.

Matthew 23:15

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You traverse land and sea to win a single convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as you are.

Matthew 23:26

Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, so that the outside may become clean as well.

Luke 7:30

But the Pharisees and experts in the law rejected God’s purpose for themselves, because they had not been baptized by John.

Luke 11:39

“Now then,” said the Lord, “you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness.

Luke 11:40

You fools! Did not the One who made the outside make the inside as well?

Luke 11:41

But give as alms the things that are within you, and you will see that everything is clean for you.

Luke 11:42

Woe to you Pharisees! You pay tithes of mint, rue, and every herb, but you disregard justice and the love of God. You should have practiced the latter without neglecting the former.

Luke 11:43

Woe to you Pharisees! You love the chief seats in the synagogues and the greetings in the marketplaces.

Luke 11:44

Woe to you! For you are like unmarked graves, which men walk over without even noticing.”

Luke 11:53

As Jesus went on from there, the scribes and Pharisees began to oppose Him bitterly and to ply Him with questions about many things,

Luke 16:14

The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all of this and were scoffing at Jesus.

Acts 23:8

For the Sadducees say that there is neither a resurrection, nor angels, nor spirits, but the Pharisees acknowledge them all.

Acts 26:5

They have known me for a long time and can testify, if they are willing, that I lived as a Pharisee, adhering to the strictest sect of our religion.

Philippians 3:5

circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin; a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee;

Philippians 3:6

as to zeal, persecuting the church; as to righteousness in the law, faultless.