pharisee

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The season consists of eight episodes, and by episode seven, viewers have been introduced to many prominent Biblical characters - like Jesus' diciples Simon and Andrew, Matthew the tax collector, and the Pharisee Nicodemus.

From Fox News • Apr. 3, 2021

And during the grand speech they toast to the fine wine of Pharisee and priest.

From Fox News • Feb. 19, 2019

European Renaissance bronzes will also feature including, from Florence, Giovanni Francesco Rustici's ensemble of St John the Baptist preaching to a Levite and a Pharisee from Florence.

From The Guardian • Jun. 25, 2012

From these various religious experiments, Josephus had emerged as a Pharisee.

From The New Yorker • May 6, 1955

He intended to withdraw from Jerusalem during night, when a devout Pharisee, wishing to be instructed, came to see him.

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'