{"id":1486,"date":"2025-11-11T23:15:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T23:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/?p=1486"},"modified":"2025-11-11T23:15:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T23:15:25","slug":"good-pharisees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/2025\/11\/11\/good-pharisees\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Pharisees?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">John the Forerunner<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Most of the Gospel accounts of Pharisees are negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"yui-gen30\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blueletterbible.org\/kjv\/mat\/3\/7\/s_932007\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Matthew 3:7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"yui-gen30\">But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"yui-gen30\">Nicodemus &#8211; Secret Follower<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>John 3:1 There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John 3:4 Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother&#8217;s womb, and be born?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John 3:9 Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John 7:50 Nicodemus saith unto them, (he that came to Jesus by night, being one of them,)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John 19:39 And there came also Nicodemus, <strong>which at the first came to Jesus by night<\/strong>, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Warning Jesus<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Luke 13:31 The same day there came certain of the Pharisees, saying unto him, Get thee out, and depart hence: for Herod will kill thee.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John the Forerunner Most of the Gospel accounts of Pharisees are negative. Matthew 3:7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Nicodemus &#8211; Secret Follower John 3:1 There was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1486"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1497,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486\/revisions\/1497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}