So when some scribes of the Pharisees saw he was eating with sinners and taxgatherers they said to his disciples, "Why does he eat and drink with taxgatherers and sinners?"

As the disciples of John and of the Pharisees were observing a fast, people came and asked him, "Why do John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, and your disciples do not fast?"

The Pharisees said to him, "Look at what they are doing on the sabbath! That is not allowed."

On this the Pharisees withdrew and at once joined the Herodians in a plot against him, to destroy him.

Now the Pharisees gathered to meet him, with some scribes who had come from Jerusalem.

(The Pharisees and all the Jews decline to eat till they wash their hands up to the wrist, in obedience to the tradition of the elders;

Then the Pharisees and scribes put this question to him, "Why do your disciples not follow the tradition of the elders? Why do they take their food with 'common' hands?"

Now the Pharisees came out and started to argue with him, asking him for a Sign from heaven, by way of tempting him.

So he cautioned them, "See and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod."

So they put this question to him, "Why do the [Pharisees and] scribes say that Elijah has to come first?"

Now some Pharisees came up and asked him if a man was allowed to divorce his wife. This was to tempt him.

But they sent some of the Pharisees and Herodians to him for the purpose of catching him with a question.