“Two men went up to the temple to pray. One was a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.
Which of the two did the will of his father?” “The first,” they answered. Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, the tax
Then Paul, knowing that some of them were Sadducees and the others Pharisees, called out in the Sanhedrin, “Brothers, I
“Go back and tell Hezekiah the leader of My people that this is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘I ha
Hear the plea of Your servant and of Your people Israel when they pray toward this place. May You hear from heaven, Your
All the people who heard this, even the tax collectors, acknowledged God’s justice. For they had received the baptism of
He declared to them, “It is written: ‘My house will be a house of prayer.’ But you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’”
One afternoon Peter and John were going up to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.
Now Hezekiah had asked Isaiah, “What will be the sign that the LORD will heal me and that I will go up to the house of t
he was chosen by lot, according to the custom of the priesthood, to enter the temple of the Lord and burn incense.
circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin; a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a
They have known me for a long time and can testify, if they are willing, that I lived as a Pharisee, adhering to the str