Luke 7:29-30
7:29 (Now
all the people who heard this, even the tax collectors,
acknowledged
God’s justice, because they had been baptized
with John’s baptism.
7:30 However, the Pharisees
and the experts in religious law
rejected God’s purpose
for themselves, because they had not been baptized
by John.
)
Matthew 21:31-32
21:31 Which of the two did his father’s will?” They said, “The first.”
Jesus said to them, “I tell you the truth,
tax collectors
and prostitutes will go ahead of you into the kingdom of God!
21:32 For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him. But the tax collectors and prostitutes did believe. Although
you saw this, you did not later change your minds
and believe him.
Acts 23:6-8
23:6 Then when Paul noticed that part of them were Sadducees and the others Pharisees, he shouted out in the council, “Brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. I am on trial concerning the hope of the resurrection of the dead!”
23:7 When he said this, an argument began between the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and the assembly was divided.
23:8 (For the Sadducees say there is no resurrection, or angel, or spirit, but the Pharisees acknowledge them all.)
Acts 26:5
26:5 They know,
because they have known
me from time past,
if they are willing to testify, that according to the strictest party
of our religion, I lived as a Pharisee.
Philippians 3:5
3:5 I was circumcised on the eighth day, from the people of Israel and the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews. I lived according to the law as a Pharisee.