He called together all the Chief Priests and Teachers of the Law in the nation, and questioned them as to where the Christ was to be born.

Do not think that I have come to do away with the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to do away with them, but to complete them.

For I tell you, until the heavens and the earth disappear, not even the smallest letter, nor one stroke of a letter, shall disappear from the Law until all is done.

Indeed I tell you that, unless your religion is above that of the Teachers of the Law, and Pharisees, you will never enter the Kingdom of Heaven.

And, when any one wants to go to law with you, to take your coat, let him have your cloak as well;

Do to others whatever you would wish them to do to you; for that is the teaching of both the Law and the Prophets.

For he taught them like one who had authority, and not like their Teachers of the Law.

When Jesus went into Peter's house, he saw Peter's mother-in- law prostrated with fever.

And a Teacher of the Law came up to him, and said: "Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go."

"Foxes have holes," answered Jesus, "and wild birds their roosting-places, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head."

Then some of the teachers of the Law said to themselves: "This man is blaspheming!"

Be on your guard against your fellow men, for they will betray you to courts of law, and scourge you in their Synagogues;

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

For the teaching of all the Prophets and of the Law continued till the time of John;

And have not you read in the law that, on the Sabbath, the priest in the Temple break the Sabbath and yet are not guilty?

But Jesus said to them: "Which of you, if he had only one sheep, and that sheep fell into a pit on the Sabbath, would not lay hold of it and pull it out?

At this point, some Teachers of the Law and Pharisees interposed. "Teacher," they said, " we want to see some sign from you."

Then he added: "So every Teacher of the Law, who has received instruction about the Kingdom of Heaven, is like a householder who produces from his stores things both new and old."

Then some Pharisees and Teachers of the Law came to Jesus, and said:

At that time Jesus Christ began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem, and undergo much suffering at the hands of the Councillors, and Chief Priests, and Teachers of the Law, and be put to death, and rise on the third day.

"How is it," his disciples asked, "that our Teachers of the Law say that Elijah has to come first?"

"Listen! We are going up to Jerusalem; and there the Son of Man will be betrayed to the Chief Priests and Teachers of the Law, and they will condemn him to death,

But, when the Chief Priests and the Teachers of the Law saw the wonderful things that Jesus did, and the boys who were calling out in the Temple Courts "God save the Son of David!", they were indignant,

Then the Pharisees went away and conferred together as to how they might lay a snare for Jesus in the course of conversation.

Then one of them, a Student of the Law, to test him, asked this question--

"Teacher, what is the great commandment in the Law?"

On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets."

"The teachers of the Law and the Pharisees now occupy the chair of Moses.

Therefore practice and lay to heart everything that they tell preach but do not practice.

But alas for you, Teachers of the Law and Pharisees, hypocrites that you are! You turn the key of the Kingdom of Heaven in men's faces. For you do not go in yourselves, nor yet allow those who try to go in to do so.

Alas for you, Teachers of the Law and Pharisees, hypocrites that you are! You destroy widow's houses, even while pretending to make long prayers; therefore you shall receive greater condemnation.

Alas for you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, hypocrites that you are! You scour land and sea to make a single convert, and, when he is gained, you make him twice as deserving of the Pit as you are yourselves.

Alas for you, Teachers of the Law and Pharisees, hypocrites that you are! You pay tithes on mint, fennel, and caraway seed, and have neglected the weightier matters of the Law--justice, mercy, and good faith. These last you ought to have put into practice, without neglecting the first.

Alas for you, Teachers of the Law and Pharisees, hypocrites that you are! You clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are filled with the results of greed and self-indulgence.

Alas for you, Teachers of the Law and Pharisees, hypocrites that you are! You are like whitewashed tombs, which indeed look fair outside, while inside they are filled with dead men's bones and all kinds of filth.

Alas for you, Teachers of the Law and Pharisees, hypocrites that you are! You build the tombs of the Prophets, and decorate the monuments of religious men,

That is why I send you Prophets, wise men, and Teachers of the Law, some of whom you will crucify and kill, and some of whom you will scourge in your Synagogues, and persecute from town to town;

Those who had arrested Jesus took him to Caiaphas, the High Priest, where the Teachers of the Law and the Councillors had assembled.

In the same way the Chief Priests, with the Teaches of the Law and Councillors, said in mockery:

And teaching them to lay to heart all the commands that I have given you; and, remember, I myself am with you every day until the close of the age."