But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his immersion, he said to them: Generation of vipers, who has warned you to flee from the coining wrath?

For I say to you, That, unless your righteousness excel that of the scribes and Pharisees, you can by no means enter into the kingdom of heaven.

And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples: "Why does your teacher eat with publicans and sinners?

Then came to him the disciples of John, saying: Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples fast not?

But the Pharisees said: He casts out the demons by the prince of the demons.

But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to him: Behold, your disciples are doing what it is not lawful to do on the Sabbath.

But the Pharisees went out and took counsel against him, that they might destroy him.

But the Pharisees, when they heard it, said: This man does not cast out the demons, unless by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons.

Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered and said: Teacher,- we wish to see a sign from you.

Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees that were of Jerusalem, saying:

Then came his disciples and said to him: Dost thou know that the Pharisees, when they heard that saying, were offended?

And the Pharisees and Sadducees came to tempt him, and asked him to show them a sign from heaven.

And Jesus said to them: Take heed and be ware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

How is it that you do not understand, that I did not speak of bread when I commanded you to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?

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

And the Pharisees came to him to tempt him, and said to him: Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?

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,

saying: The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses seat:

But alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you eat up the houses of widows, and for a pretext make long prayers. For this reason, you shall receive the greater condemnation.

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.

Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you traverse sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he is made, you make him twofold more a child of hell than yourselves.

Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you pay tithes of mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law, its justice, its mercy, and its faithfulness. These you ought to have done, and those you ought not to have neglected.

Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you make clean the outside of the cup and the plate; but within they are full of rapine and excess.

Blind Pharisee! first make clean the inside of the cup and the plate, that the outside of them also may be clean.

Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are like whitened sepulchers, which without appear beautiful, but within are full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.

Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you build the tombs of the prophets, and adorn the sepulchers of the righteous,

On the morrow, which was the day after the preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees came together to Pilate,