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 Pharisees have begun plotting to kill Jesus because he healed the withered hand of a man on the Sabbath. ... innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, higher than the heavens” (7:26).

Jesus heard this and said to them, “Those who are well do not need a physician, but the sick do. I did not come to call the righteous but sinners.” (Mk 2:13-17) “I am a sinner.” That was ...

Throughout the Gospels the Pharisees are presented as being antagonistic to Jesus and his message. We generally think of them as vain and conceited, hypocritical, and the term ‘pharisee’ today has ...

They seem to be unable to see that we might be imitating Jesus, who loved sinners and did everything he could to save them from their sins. Gene Shelburne is pastor emeritus of the Anna Street ...

In the Gospel reading on July 4, the same day that our nation celebrated its birth, Jesus called Matthew to join the ...

“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, ...

Pharisees were religious zealots who were very legalistic in nature. They would often expound the Scriptures in the synagogues and pray before people. They appeared very pious and in people’s ...