pharisee

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He, too, had taken the part of the lowly and oppressed, and against all the established power of priest and pharisee.

From The Iron Heel by London, Jack

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'

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

From Caleb in the Country by Abbott, Jacob

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'

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