 The Pharisees were criticized by Jesus more than any other single group of individuals in the Bible. Matthew 23, 29. Matthew 23, 29. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because ye built the tombs of the prophets and garnished 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.