Two men went up to the temple to pray, the one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.
Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus, and Lebbaeus, who was surnamed Thaddaeus;
saying to them, "It is written, 'My house is a house of prayer,' but you have made it a 'den of thieves.' "
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.
Now Peter and John were going up together to the temple at the hour of prayer, which was the ninth hour.
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;