But [when he] saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, "Offspring of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

For I say to you that unless your righteousness greatly surpasses [that] of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter into the kingdom of heaven.

And [when they] saw [it], the Pharisees began to say to his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?"

Then the disciples of John approached him, saying, "Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples do not fast?"

But the Pharisees were saying, "By the ruler of demons he expels the demons!"

But [when] the Pharisees saw [it], they said to him, "Behold, your disciples are doing what it is not permitted to do on the Sabbath!"

Jesus left there and went into their [i.e., the Pharisees'] synagogues,

But the Pharisees went out {and plotted} against him in order that they could destroy him.

But the Pharisees, [when they] heard [it], said, "This man does not expel demons except by Beelzebul the ruler of demons!"

Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered him saying, "Teacher, we want to see a sign from you!"

Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem, saying,

Then the disciples came [and] said to him, "Do you know that the Pharisees were offended [when they] heard this saying?"

[So], let these Pharisees alone; they are blind leaders. And if a blind person leads a blind person, both of them will fall into a ditch."

And [when] the Pharisees and Sadducees came to test [him], they asked him to show them a sign from heaven.

And Jesus said to them, "Watch out for and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees!"

How do you not understand that I did not speak to you about bread? But beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees!"

Then they understood that he did not say to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

Then the Pharisees came up to tempt him. They asked, "Is it right to divorce one's wife for any reason?"

And when the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they knew that he spoke of them.

Then the Pharisees went and held a consultation, that they might entrap him in his words.

When the Pharisees heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they came together.

While the Pharisees were together, Jesus asked them a question,

Then spake Jesus to the multitudes and to his disciples, saying, The scribes and Pharisees sit in the chair of Moses:

saying, "The scribes and the Pharisees sit on the seat of Moses.

"But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees--hypocrites!--because you shut the kingdom of heaven before people! For you do not enter, nor permit those wanting to go in to enter.

Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you close the kingdom of heaven in the face of men; for you neither go in yourselves, nor do you suffer those who are entering, to go in.

"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees--hypocrites!--because you travel around the sea and the dry [land] to make one convert, and when he becomes [one], you make him twice as much a son of hell [as] you [are]!

"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees--hypocrites!--because you pay a tenth of mint and dill and cumin, and neglect the more important [matters] of the law--justice and mercy and faithfulness! It was necessary to do these [things] {while not neglecting those}.

"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees--hypocrites!--because you cleanse the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence!

Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and the dish, so that the outside of it may become clean also.

"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees--hypocrites!--because you are like whitewashed tombs which on the outside appear beautiful, but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and of everything unclean!

"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees--hypocrites!--because you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous,

And with similar language also did the chief priests, insulting him, with the scribes and elders, and Pharisees,

The next day that followeth the day of preparing, the high priests and Pharisees got themselves to Pilate,