Pharisees: a byword for hypocrisy?

Beyond Belief by BBC

Jan 14, 202527:33Religion & Spirituality

The word hypocrite gets used with such regularity – and Jesus himself had form using the term. How did the Pharisees became a byword for hypocrisy and is it fair? Was Jesus wrong about the Pharisees? Is the view of the P...

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