But when John saw that many of the Pharisees and Sadducees were coming for baptism, he said: "O brood of vipers! Who has warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

"For I assure you that unless your righteousness exceed that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not find entrance into the kingdom of heaven.

When the Pharisees saw it, they kept saying to his disciples, "Why does your Teacher eat with the tax-gatherers and sinners?"

At that time the disciples of John came and asked him, "Why are we and the Pharisees always fasting, while your disciples are not?"

But the Pharisees kept saying, "It is in the power of the Prince of the demons that he is casting out demons."

But the Pharisees, when they perceived it, said to him. "Look! Your disciples are doing what it is not lawful to do on the Sabbath!"

The man stretched it out, and it had become sound like the other. But when the Pharisees came out, they consulted together how they might destroy him.

When the Pharisees heard it they said, "It is only by the aid of Beelzebub, the Prince of the demons, that this fellow is driving out demons."

Then some of the Scribes and Pharisees accosted him. "Teacher," they said, "we want to see some sign from you."

Then some Scribes and Pharisees from Jerusalem came to Jesus, saying,

Then his disciples came to him and said, "Do you know that the Pharisees were scandalized when they heard that saying?" He replied.

Then the Pharisees and Sadducees came to him, and in order to test him, asked him to show them a sign from heaven.

Presently Jesus said to them, "Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees."

"How is it that you do not perceive that I did not speak to you concerning bread? But beware off the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees!"

Then they realized that he had not told them to beware of the leaven, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

Presently some of the Pharisees came up to him, and made test of him by asking, "Is it right for a man to divorce his wife for every cause?"

As they listened to his parables, the chief priests and the Pharisees recognized that he was speaking about them;

Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might ensnare him during conversation.

As soon as the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered themselves together,

Now while the Pharisees were together, Jesus put this question to them.

"The Scribes and Pharisees sit in Moses' seat;

"But woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men's faces; for you do not enter, yourselves, nor do you permit those who are about to come in, to enter.

"Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you scour sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is gained, you make him twofold more a son of hell than you are, yourselves.

"Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and anise and cummin, and neglect the weightier matters of the Law??ustice and mercy and good faith; these latter you ought to have done, and not to have left the former undone.

"Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but within they are filled with extortion and excess.

"You blind Pharisees, first clean the inside of the cup and of the plate, so that the outside of it may be clean also.

"Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like white-washed sepulchers. They look beautiful without, but within they are filled with dead men's bones and all rottenness.

"Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You rebuild the tombs of the prophets, and adorn the monuments of the righteous, and say,

The day after??hat is, the day following the Preparation??he chief priests and Pharisees went in a body to Pilate and said:

But when some scribes of the Pharisees saw him eating with the sinners and tax-gatherers, they said to his disciples, "Is he eating and drinking with tax-gatherers and sinners?"

Now the disciples of John and the Pharisees were keeping a fast, and people came to ask him, "How is it that the disciples of John and the Pharisees are fasting, but your disciples are not?"

"Look," said the Pharisees to him, "Why are they doing on the Sabbath Day what is against the law?"

As soon as they came out, the Pharisees plotted against him with the Herodians, in order to destroy him.

One day the Pharisees came to him in a body with some Scribes who had come from Jerusalem.

For the Pharisees and all of the Jews do not eat until they have ceremoniously washed their hands in obedience to the tradition of the elders;

So the Pharisees and Scribes asked him. "Why do your disciples not follow the traditions of the elders? Why do they eat with 'common' unwashed hands?"

And the Pharisees came out and began to question him, seeking from him a sign from heaven, by way of testing him.

So he gave them this warning. "Look out! Be on the watch against the leaven of the Pharisees, and the leaven of Herod."

Presently some Pharisees came up and tested him, by asking if it was lawful for a man to divorce his wife.

But they sent some of the Pharisees to Jesus afterward, and some of the Herodians to entrap him in conversation.

One day he was teaching, and near to him were seated Pharisees and teachers of the Law, who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem; and the power of the Lord was with him to heal.

And the Scribes and Pharisees began to cavil. "Who is this?" they asked, "speaking blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God alone?"

And the Pharisees and their scribes began complaining to his disciples, saying, "Why are you eating and drinking with tax-gatherers and sinners?"

Again they said unto him. "Why do the disciples of John fast frequently, and make supplications, as also do the disciples of the Pharisees, but your disciples are eating and drinking?"

And some of the Pharisees asked, "Why are you doing what it is not lawful to do on the Sabbath?"

Now the Scribes and Pharisees kept watching to see if he would heal on the Sabbath, so that they might be able to bring on accusations to him.

but the Pharisees and lawyers who had refused his baptism, frustrated God's purpose for themselves.

One of the Pharisees kept urging him to dine, so he entered the house and reclined at table.

Now there was a woman who was in the city, a sinner and when she knew that that Jesus was reclining at meat in the Pharisees house, she brought an alabaster vase of perfume,

When he noticed this the Pharisee, who had invited him, said to himself, "If this man were really a prophet he would have perceived who and what sort of woman this is who is touching him, and would know that she is a sinner."

When he had finished speaking a Pharisee asked him to dine with him; so he went in with him and reclined.

And the Pharisee noticed, to his amazement, that he did not wash his hands before eating,

but the Lord said to him. "You Pharisee do cleanse the outside of your cup or plate, but your secret heart is full of extortion and wickedness.

"But woe unto you Pharisee! for you tithe mint and rue and every herb, and disregard justice and the love of God; but these you ought to have done, and not leave the other undone.

"Woe unto you Pharisee! for you delight in the best seats in the synagogue, and in the salutation in the market-places.

After he had gone away, the Scribes and the Pharisee began to set themselves vehemently against him, and to cross-question him upon many points,

Meanwhile when myriads of the multitudes were thronging around him so that they trod one upon another, he began to say to his disciples, first of all. "Beware of the leaven of the Pharisee, which is hypocrisy.

That very day there came some Pharisees to him, saying, "Get out of here and go away, for Herod wishes to kill you."

It happened on the Sabbath Day when he went into the house of a certain ruler among Pharisees to take a meal, that they were watching him.

So Jesus questioned the lawyers and the Pharisees, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath Day or not?"

And the Pharisees and Scribes began to complain, saying, "He is welcoming sinners and eating with them!"

Now the Pharisees who loved money listened to all this and they jeered at him.

The Pharisees asked him when the kingdom of God was coming. He answered. "The kingdom of God does not come so that you can catch sight of it,

"Two men are going up to the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, the other a tax-gatherer.

"The Pharisee stood apart and thus began to pray by himself. "'O God, I thank thee that I am not like the rest of men, extortioners, rogues, adulterers, or even like this tax gatherer;

And some of the Pharisees said to them out of the crowd, "Teacher reprove your disciples!"

Now it was some of the Pharisees who had been sent to him;

Now there was one of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler among the Jews.

Accordingly when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard it said, "Jesus is making and baptizing more disciples than John,"

The Pharisees heard the crowd muttering these things about him, and the high priest and Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.

Then the officers returned to the chief priest and Pharisees,

"Surely you have not been led astray, have you? answered the Pharisees.

"Has any one of the rulers believed on him, or of the Pharisees?

when the Scribes and Pharisees had brought a woman who had been caught in the act of adultery. They made her stand in the middle of the court, and said to him.

Then said the Pharisees to him. "You are bearing testimony to yourself; your testimony is not true."

Then they brought the man who had been blind to the Pharisees.

so the Pharisees again began to ask him questions about how he had regained his sight; and he said to them, "He put clay on my eyes, and I washed them, and now I see."

Then some of the Pharisees began to say, "This man in not from God, because he does not keep the Sabbath." But others said, "How can a man who is a sinner perform such signs?"

Some of the Pharisees who were with him heard this and asked, "We are not blind, are we?"

but some of them went away to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.

So the chief priests and Pharisees called a meeting of the Sanhedrin.

Now the chief priests and Pharisees had given orders that if any one knew where he was. he should give information, so that they might arrest him.

Then the Pharisees said among themselves. "You see! You can do nothing! Look! The world is gone after him!"

Nevertheless, even among the rulers many believed on him, but did not confess in on account of the Pharisees, for fear lest they be put out of the Synagogue.

So after getting troops and some Temple police from the chief priests and Pharisees, Judas came there with lanterns and torches and weapons.

but Gamaliel, a Pharisee, a teacher of the law, and held in honor by all the people, rose from his seat, and ordered the apostles to be put outside for a little while.

But certain men who had belonged to the sect of the Pharisees, but were now believers, stood up and said, "It is necessary to circumcise Gentile, and to order them to keep the Law of Moses."

Then perceiving that half the Sanhedrin were Sadducees and the other half Pharisee, he cried out in the Sanhedrin. "Brothers, I am a Pharisee, the son of Pharisees! It is for the hope of the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial!"

When he said this, there arose a quarrel between the Pharisees and Sadducees; the meeting was divided.

For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel nor spirit; the Pharisees affirm them all.

"They know me of old, if they are willing to testify, how that according to the strict sect of our religion, I lived a Pharisee.

circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew sprung from the Hebrews; as to the Law, a Pharisee;