You missed it again.......The Parisees could have accepted.. Jesus and his teachings but they did not.. Individual Pharisees did even in Jesus day!!!!!........John 3: 1. There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him. John 7:50. Nicodemus saith unto them, (he that came to Jesus by night, being one of them,)......Paul was Taught under that school..he is not professing Phariseeism thats why He is ON TRIAL......He is using his past to do what Jesus told him to do..Mat 10:16...be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.....You miss the point and take out of context, Both Paul and Jesus, in the process impeach yourself not Paul. "Dr. Neville Jones" <ntj005@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: First, Messiah says: (Mat 23:29-36 KJV) Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets. Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell? Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city: That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar. Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation. THEN, what does Saul say? : (Acts 23:6 KJV) But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: ... (BTW: If anyone cannot understand the old English of the KJV, then presumably they could perhaps look these scriptures up for themselves in their favourite version?) Neville. --------------------------------- How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos. Get Yahoo! Photos