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!"

(Now John's disciples and those of the Pharisees were keeping a fast.)

So the Pharisees said to Him, "Look! why are they doing what on the Sabbath is unlawful?"

But no sooner had the Pharisees left the synagogue than they held a consultation with the Herodians against Jesus, to devise some means of destroying Him.

Then the Pharisees, with certain Scribes who had come from Jerusalem, came to Him in a body.

(For the Pharisees and all the Jews--being, as they are, zealous for the traditions of the Elders--never eat without first carefully washing their hands,

So the Pharisees and Scribes put the question to Him: "Why do your disciples transgress the traditions of the Elders, and eat their food with unclean hands?"

The Pharisees followed Him and began to dispute with Him, asking Him for a sign in the sky, to make trial of Him.

and when He admonished them, "See to it, be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod,"

Presently a party of Pharisees come to Him with the question--seeking to entrap Him, "May a man divorce his wife?"

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