according to the custom of the priesthood, he was selected to burn incense when he entered into the temple of the Lord.

And all the multitude of the people were praying outside at the hour of incense.

saying to them, "It is written, 'My house is a house of prayer,' but you have made it a 'den of thieves.'"

And You shall hearken to the prayer of Your servant, and of Your people Israel, which they shall pray toward this place; and You shall hear in Your dwelling place in heaven, and You shall do and be gracious.

Now Peter and John were going up together to the temple at the hour of prayer, [which was] the ninth [hour].

And when all the people heard Him, even the tax collectors justified God, having been baptized with the baptism of John.

But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God for themselves, because they had not been baptized by him.

Which of the two did the will of his father?" They said to Him, "The first." Jesus said to them, "Assuredly I say to you, that tax collectors and harlots enter the kingdom of God before you.

For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him; but tax collectors and harlots believed him; but you, having seen, did not repent afterwards, that you might believe him.

But when Paul perceived that one part was of the Sadducees and the other of the Pharisees, he cried out in the Sanhedrin, "Men, brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of a Pharisee; concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am being judged!"

For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection-nor angel nor spirit; but the Pharisees confess both.

since they have known me for a long time, if they are willing to testify, that according to the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

circumcised the eighth day, of the nation of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; with respect to the law, a Pharisee;