Original sentence: But although the New Testament records Pharisees and Jewish leaders favorable to Jesus, sweeping references are nonetheless made to "the Pharisees" or "the Jews," such as the accusation by Jesus in Matthew 23:25 that the Pharisees are hypocrites and "full of greed and self-indulgence.Christian traditions have been a cause of both widespread awareness of the Pharisees among the world's roughly 2 billion Christians.Debate exists as the whether statements attributed to Jesus in the New Testament regarding the Pharisees are referring to the entire group or to specific individuals.However, Jesus Himself commanded His followers to obey the teachings of the Pharisees, but not to imitate their hypocrisy.Outside of Jewish history and writings, the Pharisees have been made notable by references in the Christian Bible to conflicts between them and Jesus.The Gospel of John, Chapter 3, tells of a Pharisee named Nicodemus seeking out Jesus' counsel and teaching and showing great respect for and interest in Jesus' message
Edited sentence: "  Analysis of the writing of the New Testament thus confirms that such terms were commonly used as over-generalizations by the Gospel writers, and were never intended to apply to all Pharisees without exception.Although the Pharisees are fundamentally part of Jewish history and should be understood and defined by Jewish scholars expert in their own traditions, the Pharisees have indpendently been made famous or perhaps infamous by references in the Christian Bible to the Pharisees and conflicts between them and Jesus.Christian traditions have been a cause of both widespread awareness of the Pharisees among the world's roughly 2 billion Christians but also misinformation.Consistent with the writing style seen in the New Testament, the NT is not referring to the entire group of Pharisees but rather to specfic individuals.Moreover, Jesus Himself commanded His followers to obey the teachings of the Pharisees, but not to imitate their hypocrisy.The New Testament records Pharisees and Jewish leaders favorable to Jesus, and yet sweeping references are nonetheless made to "the Pharisees" or "the Jews.This is confirmed, for example, in the Gospel of John, Chapter 3, in which one of the Pharisees named Nicodemus sought out Jesus' counsel and teaching and showed great respect for and interest in Jesus' message