Jesus challenges the Pharisees and says “But go you and learn what this means, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.” ...

In the minds of the Pharisees, Jesus is diminishing the religious regulations that have preserved Jewish identity in Rome by forgiving sins (Lk 5:17–26), eating with tax collectors and sinners ...

Jesus overturned tables to drive out anything keeping outsiders from meeting God. What would he clear out of our churches ...

The Jesus we meet in today’s Gospel from Mark is a man who, for better or worse, has made a name for himself. The Pharisees have begun plotting to kill Jesus because he healed the withered hand ...

A Reflection for Saturday of the First Week in Ordinary Time Some scribes who were Pharisees saw that Jesus was eating with sinners and tax collectors and said to his disciples, “Why does he eat ...

They assumed that being friends with sinners meant that you accepted their disgraceful behavior. Not so, Jesus replied.

Conflict Between Jesus And The Pharisees. Throughout the Gospels the Pharisees are presented as being antagonistic to Jesus.

“The worst sinners, according to Jesus, are not the harlots and publicans, but the religious leaders with their insistence of proper dress and grooming, their careful observance of all the rules ...

This is the Daily Gospel for today, July 3, 2025, which is the Friday of the Thirteenth Week of Ordinary Time. READ MORE: Daily Gospel, July 3 Daily Gospel, July 2 Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ, ...

He Loved Them: Discovering Jesus’ Heart for Seekers, Sinners, Doubters, and the Discouraged (and Other People Like Us) ...