Now John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. So they came to Jesus and said, "Why do the disciples of John and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples don't fast?"

When the experts in the law and the Pharisees saw that he was eating with sinners and tax collectors, they said to his disciples, "Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?"

So the Pharisees said to him, "Look, why are they doing what is against the law on the Sabbath?"

So the Pharisees went out immediately and began plotting with the Herodians, as to how they could assassinate him.

Now the Pharisees and some of the experts in the law who came from Jerusalem gathered around him.

(For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they perform a ritual washing, holding fast to the tradition of the elders.

The Pharisees and the experts in the law asked him, "Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with unwashed hands?"

Then the Pharisees came and began to argue with Jesus, asking for a sign from heaven to test him.

And Jesus ordered them, "Watch out! Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod!"

Then some Pharisees came, and to test him they asked, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?"

Then they sent some of the Pharisees and Herodians to trap him with his own words.