And He went unto the Pharisee's house, and sat down to eat.
The Pharisee prayed,“God, I thank Thee that
I am not as other men.”.
The Pharisee was surprised that he did not wash his hands before eating.
He was a Pharisee, educated“ according to the strictness of the ancestral Law.”.
After all, Paul had been“ a Pharisee,” the very name meaning“ separated one.”.
A sinful woman in the
town learned that Jesus was eating at the Pharisee's house.
As an ex- Pharisee, the Christian apostle Paul was fully
aware of their life- style.
The Pharisee's immediately challenged Him because they understood that it was a claim to divinity.
When Jesus had finished speaking, a Pharisee invited Him to eat a meal with him.
When the Pharisee saw it,
he marveled that he had not first washed himself before dinner.
But Simon the Pharisee, whose home it was, was concerned that she was a sinner.
Why might the woman who
was“ a sinner” have been at the home of the Pharisee?
Sure, a Pharisee could say,"Who told us that we can't do this and do that?
Through the story of the Pharisee and tax collector(Luke 18),
we learn about God's grace and forgiveness.
It recalls the Pharisee in the Temple:“Lord, I thank thee that I am not like other men…”.
The Pharisee was astonished when he saw that Jesus
did not first wash his hands before the meal.
When the Pharisee saw it,
he was surprised that He had not first aceremonially washed before the meal.
Jesus made that clear when a Pharisee asked:“ Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”.
The Pharisee in the Temple prayed thus,'God, I
thank thee, that I am not as other men are.'.
For instance, he did so when he spoke to the Pharisee Nicodemus about the matter of being“ born” again.
Luke 11:38 When the Pharisee saw it,
he was surprised that He had not first ceremonially washed before the meal.
When a Pharisee disapproved of what had happened, Jesus spoke to him kindly too. - Luke 7: 36- 48.
Two men went up into the temple to pray; one was a Pharisee, and the other was a tax collector.
You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the platter,
that its outside may become clean also.
Nicodemus, who as a Pharisee must have studied the Hebrew Scriptures,
knew something about the grand truth of the Kingdom of God.
Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter,
that the outside of them may be clean also.
At Luke 7: 36- 50,
we read about an immoral woman who entered the house of a Pharisee, where Jesus was dining.
At this, Nicodemus, a Pharisee and a ruler of the Jews(
that is, a member of the Sanhedrin), dares speak in Jesus' behalf.
If you had been among the other guests, might your thinking have been at least somewhat like that of Simon the Pharisee?
Which knew me from the beginning,
if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.