After assembling all the chief priests and experts in the law, he asked them where the Christ was to be born.

"Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have not come to abolish these things but to fulfill them.

I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth pass away not the smallest letter or stroke of a letter will pass from the law until everything takes place.

For I tell you, unless your righteousness goes beyond that of the experts in the law and the Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

In everything, treat others as you would want them to treat you, for this fulfills the law and the prophets.

because he taught them like one who had authority, not like their experts in the law.

And a leper approached, and bowed low before him, saying, "Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean."

Now when Jesus entered Peter's house, he saw his mother-in-law lying down, sick with a fever.

Then an expert in the law came to him and said, "Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go."

Jesus said to him, "Foxes have dens, and the birds in the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head."

Then some of the experts in the law said to themselves, "This man is blaspheming!"

As he was saying these things, a ruler came, bowed low before him, and said, "My daughter has just died, but come and lay your hand on her and she will live."

For I have come to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law,

From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven has suffered violence, and forceful people lay hold of it.

For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John appeared.

But when the Pharisees saw this they said to him, "Look, your disciples are doing what is against the law to do on the Sabbath."

how he entered the house of God and they ate the sacred bread, which was against the law for him or his companions to eat, but only for the priests?

Or have you not read in the law that the priests in the temple desecrate the Sabbath and yet are not guilty?

Then some of the experts in the law along with some Pharisees answered him, "Teacher, we want to see a sign from you."

Then he said to them, "Therefore every expert in the law who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like the owner of a house who brings out of his treasure what is new and old."

Then Pharisees and experts in the law came from Jerusalem to Jesus and said,

From that time on Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests, and experts in the law, and be killed, and on the third day be raised.

The disciples asked him, "Why then do the experts in the law say that Elijah must come first?"

Then little children were brought to him for him to lay his hands on them and pray. But the disciples scolded those who brought them.

"Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and the experts in the law. They will condemn him to death,

But when the chief priests and the experts in the law saw the wonderful things he did and heard the children crying out in the temple courts, "Hosanna to the Son of David," they became indignant

And one of them, an expert in religious law, asked him a question to test him:

"Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?"

All the law and the prophets depend on these two commandments."

"The experts in the law and the Pharisees sit on Moses' seat.

"But woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You keep locking people out of the kingdom of heaven! For you neither enter nor permit those trying to enter to go in.

"Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You cross land and sea to make one convert, and when you get one, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves!

"Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You give a tenth of mint, dill, and cumin, yet you neglect what is more important in the law -- justice, mercy, and faithfulness! You should have done these things without neglecting the others.

"Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.

"Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs that look beautiful on the outside but inside are full of the bones of the dead and of everything unclean.

"Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous.

"For this reason I am sending you prophets and wise men and experts in the law, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town,

Now the ones who had arrested Jesus led him to Caiaphas, the high priest, in whose house the experts in the law and the elders had gathered.

In the same way even the chief priests -- together with the experts in the law and elders -- were mocking him: