But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism, he said to them, "You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

For I tell you, that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.

And when the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?"

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

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

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

But the Pharisees went out and plotted against him, how they might destroy him.

But when the Pharisees heard this they said, "It is only by Beelzebub, the prince of demons, that this fellow drives out demons."

Then some of the scribes and Pharisees said to him, "Teacher, we want to see a sign from you."

Then the scribes and Pharisees who were from Jerusalem came to Jesus and said,

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

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

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

How is it that you do 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 tell them to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

Some Pharisees came to him to test him. They asked, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any and every reason?"

When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they perceived that he was speaking about them.

Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how to entangle him in his talk.

But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together.

While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them,

"The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat.

"But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither enter yourselves, nor do you allow those who would enter to go in.

"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel land and sea to win a single proselyte, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves.

"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithe of mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the Law, justice and mercy and faith. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.

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

Blind Pharisee! First cleanse the inside of the cup and dish, that the outside of them may be clean also.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which outwardly appear beautiful, but inside they are full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness.

"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous,

The next day, the one after the day of Preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered to Pilate