Scratch your typical Christian and that person will offer a stereotype of the Pharisees. I hear it all the time. I see it on Twitter. I hear it from my students. Pharisees are “legalistic, elite, money-loving, xenophobic hypocrites.” In my life the word “pettifogging” has been one of the most common flippant labels. To continue, they are “an ossified, d…
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