But when the Scribes of the Pharisee sect saw Him eating with the sinners and the tax-gatherers, they said to His disciples, "He is eating and drinking with the tax-gatherers and sinners!"

Then one of the experts in the law of Moses [Note: Matt. 22:34 identifies him as being a Pharisee also], came and heard Jesus and the Sadducees discussing together [i.e., the subject of the resurrection], and knowing that Jesus had refuted the Sadducees successfully, asked Him, "Which commandment is foremost, above all the others?"

And John's disciples and the Pharisees were taking no food: and they came and said to him, Why do John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees go without food, but your disciples do not?

Their next step was to send to Him some of the Pharisees and of Herod's partisans to entrap Him in conversation.

Then Jesus ordered them, saying, "Pay attention and watch out for the leavening [effect] of the Pharisees and Herod." [Note: By "Herod" is probably meant the Herodians, who were a party favorable to King Herod and, along with the Pharisees and Sadducees, were out to get Jesus. See Matt. 16:6].

And the Pharisees began to say to him, "Behold, why are they doing what is not permitted on the Sabbath?"

And the Pharisees went out immediately with the Herodians {and began to conspire} against him with regard to how they could destroy him.

And the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered to him.

(For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands {ritually}, [thus] holding fast to the traditions of the elders.

And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unclean hands?"

And the Pharisees came and began to argue with him, demanding from him a sign from heaven [in order to] test him.

And Pharisees coming to him asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? (tempting him).